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*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmag211edinuoft#page/318/mode/2up "A Shooting Trip in Chamba"] by F L Farrer  page 318 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 211 January-June 1922  Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmag211edinuoft#page/318/mode/2up "A Shooting Trip in Chamba"] by F L Farrer  page 318 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 211 January-June 1922  Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/daysnightswithin0000ward/page/n9 ''Days and Nights with Indian Big Game''] by Major-General A E Wardrop with chapters by C W G Morris. 1923. Archive.org. Wardrop was also the author of ''Modern pig-sticking'', see below.
*[https://archive.org/details/daysnightswithin0000ward/page/n9 ''Days and Nights with Indian Big Game''] by Major-General A E Wardrop with chapters by C W G Morris. 1923. Archive.org. Wardrop was also the author of ''Modern pig-sticking'', see below.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1924-sport-and-service-in-assam-and-elsewhere-by-wilson-s-pdf/ ''Sport and Service in Assam, and Elsewhere''] by James Alban Wilson 1924. Pdf download Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If download does not display, look under Books/ Indian Subcontinent. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2253/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2253/mode/2up ''Sport and Service in Assam, and Elsewhere''] by Lt.-Col Alban Wilson, late 1st Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles.  1924. Archive.org, mirror from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Some of the contents first appeared in the ''Fishing Gazette'' and Indian papers such as the ''Pioneer''. Covers the period from c 1890.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b25288?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Big Game Hunting in the Himalayas and Tibet'']  by Major G. Burrard RFA (Retired) 1925 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1925-big-game-hunting-in-the-himalayas-and-tibet-by-burrard-s-pdf/ Download from PAHAR- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD)]. If download does not display, look under Books/Himalaya and Karakoram. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2267/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b25288?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Big Game Hunting in the Himalayas and Tibet'']  by Major G. Burrard RFA (Retired) 1925 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1925-big-game-hunting-in-the-himalayas-and-tibet-by-burrard-s-pdf/ Download from PAHAR- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD)]. If download does not display, look under Books/Himalaya and Karakoram. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2267/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]
* ''Work And Sport In The Old I. C. S.'' by  W O Horne [William Ogilvie] 1928. He was appointed to the Madras Civil Service in 1882.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461199  Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes reference to the Madras Hunt.  
* ''Work And Sport In The Old I. C. S.'' by  W O Horne [William Ogilvie] 1928. He was appointed to the Madras Civil Service in 1882.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461199  Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes reference to the Madras Hunt.  
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*[https://archive.org/details/callofthetiger029909mbp ''Call Of The Tiger''] by Colonel A N W Powell 1957 Archive.org . The author was a contemporary of Jim Corbett, the latter was born 1875.
*[https://archive.org/details/callofthetiger029909mbp ''Call Of The Tiger''] by Colonel A N W Powell 1957 Archive.org . The author was a contemporary of Jim Corbett, the latter was born 1875.
*For books by Jim Corbett, see [[Kumaon Division]].
*For books by Jim Corbett, see [[Kumaon Division]].
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1970-assam-shikari-tea-planters-story-of-hunting-and-high-adventure-by-nicholls-s-pdf/  ''Assam Shikari. A tea planter's story of hunting and high adventure in the jungles of North East India''] by Frank Nicholls, Tea Planter (born 1889) 1970. Pdf download Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3375  Archive.org mirror version]
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3375  ''Assam Shikari. A tea planter's story of hunting and high adventure in the jungles of North East India''] by Frank Nicholls 1970. Archive.org, mirror from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Nicholls (born 1889)  went to India 1911 as an assistant manager to a tea estate in Assam. He retired 1952, and remained in Assam until 1963.
*[https://archive.org/details/TheRupaBookOfShikarStoriesRuskinBond ''The Rupa Book Of Shikar Stories''] edited by Ruskin Bond 2004. Selections from many authors; the first account in the book  is dated  1929. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/TheRupaBookOfShikarStoriesRuskinBond ''The Rupa Book Of Shikar Stories''] edited by Ruskin Bond 2004. Selections from many authors; the first account in the book  is dated  1929. Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/pigstickingorhog00baderich#page/n5/mode/2up ''Pigsticking or, Hoghunting: a complete account for sportsmen, and others''] by Captain R. S. S. Baden-Powell [of Scouting fame] Illustrated by the author. 1889 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/pigstickingorhog00baderich#page/n5/mode/2up ''Pigsticking or, Hoghunting: a complete account for sportsmen, and others''] by Captain R. S. S. Baden-Powell [of Scouting fame] Illustrated by the author. 1889 Archive.org

Revision as of 04:36, 1 March 2021

Online accounts about hunting, which was usually called sport or shikar in India.

Also including online accounts about fishing.

Many accounts include detailed observations about animals and their habitats.

External links

Hunting accounts

Additions and corrections, pages 167-169, Volume 50, 1951, same author and publication. Archive.org.
"Indian Game", (from Quail to Tiger) by William Rice 1884 Archive.org
The Spear and the Rifle; or Recollections of Sport in India by an Old Shekarree [Henry Astbury Leveson] 1860 Google Books
The Forest and the Field by H. A. L. The "Old Shekarry" 1867. Archive.org. India and Africa
Wrinkles; or, Hints to sportsmen and travellers on dress, equipment, and camp life by The Old Shekarry [Henry Astbury Leveson], a New Edition 1874. Archive.org
Fifty years' reminiscences of India : a retrospect of travel, adventure and shikar by Colonel Pollock, [FitzWilliam Thomas Pollock] Madras Staff Corps 1896 seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu. Archive.org version The author arrived in Madras in early 1849, and was posted to a Native Infantry Regiment. In 1853 he was appointed to the Sappers and Miners in Burma.
The New Shikari at our Indian Stations by Julius Barras 1885 Archive.org Volume 1, Volume 2
  • Reminiscences Of Sport In India by Major General E F Burton, Madras Staff Corps 1885 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Poor quality print, but generally readable. Lacks most illustrations.
An Indian Olio by Lieut.-General E F Burton catalogued 1893. Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. [1884] edition 2 illustrations are reversely titled, probably incorrectly. Archive.org. (Olio=Miscellany)
Powder, Spur, and Spear : a Sporting Medley by J. Moray Brown 1889. Archive.org.
Stray Sport, Volume I by J Moray Brown 1893. Archive.org. Lacks illustrations. Mainly India. Volume II does not include India.
A Summer in High Asia, being a record of sport and travel in Baltisan and Ladakh by Capt F E S Adair, late Rifle Brigade 1899 Archive.org. 2nd file, images may be marginally better.
Volume I only (although catalogued Vol. 2] 1911 edition, published in four volumes. Archive.org
The author was appointed as Assistant Conservator of Forests in 1866 at Hoshangabad, C P.
  • Forest Life and Sport in India by Sainthill Eardley-Wilmot, late Inspector-General of Forests to the Government of India. 1910 Archive.org. The author joined the Indian Forest Service in December 1873 at Lucknow.
The Life of an Elephant by S Eardley-Wilmot 1912 Archive.org
  • Life in an Indian Outpost [Buxa Duar, North East India] by Major Gordon Casserly, Indian Army, first published c 1910. Archive.org. Hunting was a major activity. He was also the author of two books of fiction set in the same area:
The Elephant God by Gordon Casserly 1921 Gutenberg.org.
The Jungle Girl by Gordon Casserly 1922 Archive.org
Stalks in the Himalaya: Jottings of a Sportsman-Naturalist by E P Stebbing 1912. With illustrations by the author and his wife. Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection.
"The Strap-Hanger of the Ganges" by Captain J G Bennett RAMC, page 474 The Wild World Magazine Volume 42, April 1919. Hunting a gavial (fish-eating crocodile) near Delhi.
Part 1 1933;60:5 377-392. Part 2 1933;60:6 456-461. Part 3 1933;61:1 61-70. Part 4 1933;61:2 133-144. Part 5 1933;61:4 304-309. Part 6 1933;61:5 379-393. Part 7: not online. Part 8 1934;62:2 142-150. Part 9 1934;62:3 224-233. Part 10 1934;62:5 365-376. Part 11 1934;62:6 430-440. Part 12 1934;63:2 127-134. Part 13 1934;63:3 193-206.

Fishing accounts

Tank Angling in India author catalogued Henry Sullivan Thomas and catalogued 1887. Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Asiatic Society of Mumbai Collection. Note title page and pages of the Preface are missing. Also available to readers in North America etc, on HathiTrust Digital Library.
The Angler in India ; or, The Mighty Mahseer. Being the incorporated 3rd edition of The Angler in Northern India and The Mighty Mahseer by Skene Dhu , pseudonym for Cecil Lang 1923. With chapters on Burma and Ceylon. The University of British Colombia, Hawthorn Fly Fishing & Angling Collection
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Game Birds

Game, Shore, and Water Birds of India, with additional references to their allied species in other parts of the world by Colonel A Le Messurier, late Royal Engineers. 4th edition 1904 Archive.org

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