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*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1934-when-the-red-gods-call-being-the-biography-of-a-shikari-in-the-making-by-malet-s-pdf/ ''When the Red Gods Call: Being The Biography Of A Shikari In The Making''] by Rawdon Malet 1934.  Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the download does not display, go to Books/Indian Subcontinent/scroll to 1934. An account of the hunting career of James Carmody Collinson. He came to India after demobilisation following WW1. His travels took him to Baltistan, Tibet and Ladakh, where he hunted ibex and other game; journeying to India's Central Provinces, he successfully pursued tiger, sambur and bear<ref>[https://www.shakariconnection.com/books-about-early-african-hunters.html "Books About Early African Hunters"] shakariconnection.com </ref>.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1934-when-the-red-gods-call-being-the-biography-of-a-shikari-in-the-making-by-malet-s-pdf/ ''When the Red Gods Call: Being The Biography Of A Shikari In The Making''] by Rawdon Malet 1934.  Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the download does not display, go to Books/Indian Subcontinent/scroll to 1934. An account of the hunting career of James Carmody Collinson. He came to India after demobilisation following WW1. His travels took him to Baltistan, Tibet and Ladakh, where he hunted ibex and other game; journeying to India's Central Provinces, he successfully pursued tiger, sambur and bear<ref>[https://www.shakariconnection.com/books-about-early-african-hunters.html "Books About Early African Hunters"] shakariconnection.com </ref>.
* ''Shikar Memories'' by Lieut.-Col. H S Wood [Henry Stotesbury], IMS (Late M O 2/8th Gurkhas and Civil Surgeon, Assam) 1934. Full title: ''Shikar Memories. A record of sport and observation in India and Burma''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211390 Archive.org version], mirror from  Digital Library of India.
* ''Shikar Memories'' by Lieut.-Col. H S Wood [Henry Stotesbury], IMS (Late M O 2/8th Gurkhas and Civil Surgeon, Assam) 1934. Full title: ''Shikar Memories. A record of sport and observation in India and Burma''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211390 Archive.org version], mirror from  Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209132/page/n259 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/tigerhunters029908mbp ''The Tiger Hunters''] by Brigadier-General R G Burton 1936 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/tigerhunters029908mbp ''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.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209125 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.
* ''Jungle Trails in Northern India: Reminiscences of Hunting in India'' by John Hewett. With 24 plates and a map 1938.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209125 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.

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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

"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.
  • 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
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.
  • Sport and Travel in the Far East by J C Grew 1910 Archive.org. The travel occurred in 1902-1903. Joseph Grew Wikipedia. He became an American diplomat, and from 1932-1941 was Ambassador to Japan.
  • 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
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

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

References