Hunting accounts online

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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.
Further bibliography page 866 Volume 50, 1952, 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
Hog Hunting in the East, and other Sports by Captain J T Newall 1867. Archive.org.
Scottish Moors and Indian Jungles: Scenes of Sport in the Lews and India by Captain J T Newall, late Indian Staff Corps 1889 Archive.org
Digitise on Demand pay service Pack Gear for Elephants by G.P. Sanderson 1882. National Archives of India.
  • Sport in British Burmah, Assam and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills : with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the Northern Division, Madras Presidency ... by Lieut.-Colonel Pollok, Madras Staff Corps. (Fitzwilliam Thomas Pollok) 1879 Volume I, Volume II Archive.org
Fifty years' reminiscences of India : a retrospect of travel, adventure and shikar by Colonel Pollok, [FitzWilliam Thomas Pollok] Madras Staff Corps 1896 Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University. 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 Tourist's and Sportsman’s Guide to Kashmir and Ladak by A E Ward, Bengal Staff Corps 1896. Archive.org
  • India and Tiger-Hunting by Colonel Julius Barras Archive.org Volume I 1883; Series II 1885
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.
The Snaffle Papers by "Snaffle" (Robert Dunkin) 1898 Archive.org. Two chapters on Ceylon.
"Hunting in the Indies" (including Ceylon) page 189 The image of war : a sporting autobiography by “Snaffle” 1914 Archive.org.
Some chapters may appear in more than one book.
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.
A Book of the Wilderness and Jungle by F G Aflalo [1912] Archive.org
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.
Tigerland : reminiscences of forty years' sport and adventure in Bengal by C E Gouldsbury 1913. Stated to be based on the experiences of an individual who came to India c 1857.
Tiger Slayer by Order (Digby Davies, late Bombay Police) by C E Gouldsbury late Indian Police 1915. Archive.org. Digby Davies joined Bombay Police 7 January 1882, and was still employed at the time of 1905 India Office List.
  • "Charon’s Sheep: The Mugger of the Ganges" page 169 Many Camps : Sketches of Indian Life by Arthur Waltham Howlett 1912 (articles republished from the Manchester Guardian) Google Books. Howlett was at that time an Indian Army doctor with the Indian Medical Service.
"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.
"Mugger Shooting in India" by “Ubique” page 430 The Journal of the Royal Artillery Volume 53, No.3 1926 October. Archive.org
"Shikar in India" by various officers of the 4th Battalion, in India from December 1909, a period of 4-5 years. Commences page 27 and describes Shooting in the Sunderbunds;
A Day with the Peshawar Vale Hounds page 33
Falconry and Hawking page 38
Pig-sticking page 43
Markhor page 47. Mountain wild goat/sheep
Big Game Shooting in Burma page 52
Blackbuck page 57
Urial and Chinkara page 60. Urial=wild sheep
Chakor page 65. Chakor=type of bird.
“Small Game” page 67
Chapter 1 1933;60:5 377-392. Chapter 2 1933;60:6 456-461. Chapter 3 1933;61:1 61-70. Chapter 4 1933;61:2 133-144. Chapter 5 1933;61:4 304-309. Chapter 6 1933;61:5 379-393. Chapter 7 1933;61:6 462-466. Chapter 8 1934;62:2 142-150. Chapter 9 1934;62:3 224-233. Chapter 10 1934;62:5 365-376. Chapter 11 1934;62:6 430-440. Chapter 12 1934;63:2 127-134. Chapter 13 1934;63:3 193-206. Archive.org.
"Thamin" [Brow-antler deer] by Colonel F A Hamilton, late 3rd Cavalry IA. Page 431-441 The Cavalry Journal Volume 26 1936. Archive.org. A shooting expedition south of Mandalay, Burma.
  • Battle between an Assam tigress and a Rajput elephant involving C. B. a forestry official with a wooden leg, from Kathiawar, pages 251-254 Khyber Caravan: Through Kashmir, Waziristan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Northern India by Gordon Sinclair 1936. Archive.org.
  • The Tiger Hunters by Brigadier-General R G Burton 1936 Archive.org
  • Jungle Trails in Northern India: Reminiscences of Hunting in India by John Hewett. With 24 plates and a map 1938. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Sir John was Governor of United Provinces with many royal friends. Hunting largely between 1907 and 1912, including tiger hunting in the jungles of Tarai, Cooch Behar, the Central Provinces, and up north in Kumaon and Garhwal.
  • "Hunting and Training for War" by Major-General AVT Wakely page 46, USI [United Service Institution Of India] Journal Vol.lxxii Jan to Oct 1942. Archive.org
  • "A History of Shikar in India" by Lieut.-Col. R W Burton, Indian Army, (retd) page 845, Vol 50, Journal of The Bombay Natural History Society 1952. Archive.org
  • 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.
  • Shikar by Khan Saheb Jamshed Butt 1963. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Reminiscences of twenty years' pigsticking in Bengal by Raoul 1893 Archive.org
  • Some extracts from the Bareilly Tent Club Log 1910-1912: Page 217 Lancer at Large by F Yeats-Brown 1936 Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
  • Modern pig-sticking by A. E. Wardrop, Royal Horse Artillery, with chapters by J. Vaughan, F. W. Caton Jones, M. M. Crawford, and H. E. Medlicott 1914 Archive.org. 2nd file with images correctly rotated Archive.org.
  • The Kadir [Cup] Sketches from My Sketch Book in the Shiny by Snaffles (Charlie Johnson Payne) 1930 Google Books. Image of Kadir Bandobust by Snaffles.
"Granite - The Story of a Great Australian Horse" by Lt. Col. Charles Robert Douglas Gray. Winner of the 1934 Kadir Cup. This article first appeared in The Lady in the 1930s. With some further images by Snaffles.
  • The magazine The Indian Forester from c 1884 included the additional title A Monthly Magazine Of Forestry, Agriculture, Shikar And Travel. See Forestry - Historical books online

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 HathiTrust Digital Library where the Plates may be rotated, Google Books.
2nd edition 1890. Archive.org.
The third edition, 1895, was revised and enlarged by Dr. Eugene Cretin following the death of the author in 1894, aged just 38. There was a revised 4th edition 1905 by Dr Cretin when the title was changed to The Angler's Handbook for India. There was also a 1985 reprint of the 1905 4th edition - some editions appear to have had a slightly different title The Anglers' Handbook for India.[3]
2nd edition 1906. The University of British Colombia, Hawthorn Fly Fishing & Angling Collection
The Angler in Northern India. With list of Fishing Localities in India, from the Nerbudda northwards, Including Burma and Baluchistan by Skene Dhu (Cecil Lang) 1910 Archive.org
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
Note, the files from The University of British Colombia may be slow to open and you may need to change browsers, (e.g. to Chrome) as problems were at times noted with Safari.
1992 reprint Archive.org

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

References

  1. Page 318 British Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography of British Autobiographies Published Or Written Before 1951. Compiled by William Matthews originally published 1955 Google Books
  2. "Books About Early African Hunters" shakariconnection.com
  3. AbeBooks description, archived 10 December 2022.