Hunting accounts online

Hunting was usually called Sport or Shikar in India

External links

• Oriental Field Sports Volume 1 by Captain Thomas Williamson 1807 With coloured illustrations. Oriental Field Sports Volume 2 with illustrations 1808 Google Books.
  • Illustrations of Indian Field Sports selected and reproduced from the coloured engravings first published in 1807 after designs by Captain Thomas Williamson of the Bengal Army 1892 Archive.org (Contains 10 plates)
• Sketches of Indian Field Sports: with Observations on the Animals by Daniel Johnson 1827 Google Books
• The Old Forest Ranger, or, Wild Sports of India on the Neilgherry Hills, in the Jungles and On the Plains by Walter Campbell 1853 Google Books
• Tiger-shooting in India; being an account of hunting experiences on foot in Rajpootana, during the hot seasons, from 1850 to 1854 by William Rice, Lieutenant 25th Regiment Bombay N I 1857 Hathi Trust Digital Library

"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 Wild Sports of India; with remarks on the breeding and rearing of horses, and the formation of light irregular cavalry by Captain Henry Shakespear, Commandant Nagpore Irregular Force. 1860 Google Books
• Hunting in the Himalaya. With notices of customs and countries from the elephant haunts of the Dehra Doon to the Bunchowr tracks in eternal snow by R H W Dunlop BCS [Bengal Civil Service] 1860 with a Map. Archive.org. Also available as a pdf download, Digital Library of India.
• ‪A Summer Ramble in the Himalayas: With Sporting Adventures in the Vale of Cashmere‬ Edited by Mountaineer [Frederick Wilson] 1860 Google Books.
• The rifle in Cashmere : a narrative of shooting expeditions in Ladak, Cashmere, Punjaub, etc., with advice on travelling, shooting, and stalking : to which are added notes on army reform and Indian politics by Arthur Brinckman, late of HM’s 94th Regt. 1862 Google Books
• The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains by [A.H. Irby]. 1863 Google Books. Kashmir and adjacent countries, principally Ladak.
• Sir Victor Brooke, sportsman & naturalist: a memoir of his life and extracts from his letters and journals edited by Oscar Leslie Stephen 1894. Archive.org. Includes two chapters on India, including tigers, 1862-63 when Brooke was aged 19, from page 59
• Records of sport in Southern India : chiefly on the Annamullay, Nielgherry and Pulney mountains, also including notes on Singapore, Java and Labuan, from journals written between 1844 and 1870 by the late General Douglas Hamilton, Madras Army 1892. Archive.org. With many illustrations by the author.
• Large Game Shooting in Thibet and the North West by Alexander Kinloch, Rifle Brigade and later King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Part I 1869, Part II 1876. Later editions have titles…in Thibet, the Himalayas, and Northern India (1885) and … in Thibet, the Himalayas, Northern and Central India (1892). Part I 1869 Google Books; Part II 1876 Hathi Trust Digital Library; Revised edition 1885 Archive.org; 3rd edition, revised and enlarged 1892 Archive.org.
• Wild Men and Wild Beasts: Scenes in Camp and Jungle by William Gordon-Cumming, 1872 Archive.org
• Seonee: or, Camp life on the Satpura Range; a Tale of Indian Adventure by Robert Armitage Sterndale, 2nd Edition 1877 (First published 1877?) Archive.org. With illustrations by the author. Central Provinces of India. Set in fictional form (for juveniles), but based on actual experiences.
• Thirteen Years Among The Wild Beasts Of India: Their Haunts and Habits from Personal Observation: With an Account of the Modes of Capturing and Taming Elephants by GP Sanderson, Officer in Charge of the Government Elephant Catching Establishment in Mysore 6th edition 1907 Archive.org (first published 1878). The author was the model for the Rudyard Kipling character 'Petersen Sahib' in the story Toomai of the Elephants, Scroll down for the article 'Petersen Sahib' by Sir Theodore Tasker The Kipling Journal December 1971 Kipling Society
• 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
• 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

• Letters on Sport in Eastern Bengal by Frank B. Simson, Bengal Civil Service (retired) 1886 Archive.org
• Sport in Bengal and How, When, and Where to Seek It by Edward B Baker late Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Bengal. 1887 Archive.org. Hunting.
• Shikar Sketches, with Notes on Indian Field-Sports by J Moray Brown, late 79th Cameron Highlanders, 1887 Archive.org
• The Highlands of India Volume II, being a Chronicle of Field Sports and Travel in India by Major General D J F Newall R A (Bengal Retired) 1887 Archive.org
• Tiger-shooting in the Doon and Ulwar: with Life in India by Lt.-Colonel J C Fife-Cookson 1887 Archive.org
• Reminiscences of Life and Sport in Southern India by Colonel Heber Drury, late Madras Staff Corps and Assistant Resident in Travancore and Cochin 1890 Archive.org
• Wild Beasts and Their Ways: Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America by Samuel White Baker 1890 Archive.org Volume I Volume II
• Tent Life in Tigerland with which is incorporated Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier : being twelve years' sporting reminiscences of a pioneer (indigo) planter in an indian frontier district by James Inglis 1892. Archive.org. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier was first published 1878.
• Thirty Years of Shikar, with a Map: Oudh Forest Tracts and Nepal Terai by Sir Edward Braddon 1895 Archive.org.The author was in India from 1847, including the Civil Service. Australian Dictionary of Biography. He left India in 1878, and later became a politician in Australia.
• Rifle and spear with the Rajpoots: being the narrative of a winter's travel and sport in northern India by Mrs Alan Gardner (Nora Gardner) 1895 Archive.org
• Sport in the Highlands of Kashmir. Being a narrative of an eight months' trip in Baltistan and Ladak, and a lady's experiences in the latter country; together with hints for the guidance of sportsmen ... by Henry Zouch Darrah, Indian Civil Service 1898 Archive.org
• The Indian Field Shikar Book by W. S. Burke, Editor of The Indian Field. First published prior to 1904, the date of the 2nd edition. Pdf download, Digital Library of India
• Hunting & Shooting in Ceylon by Harry Storey 1907. Archive.org. Includes elephant shooting.
• Sport and Life in the Further Himalaya by Major R L Kennion 1910 Archive.org. The author joined the Indian Foreign and Political Department in 1893, serving in Kashmir, Gilgit and Leh until 1907. He also wrote a book on sport in East Persia.
• Jungle by-ways in India; leaves from the note-book of a sportsman and a naturalist by Edward Percy Stebbing 1911 Archive.org. The author spent sixteen years in the Indian Forest Service
• The Ibex of Sha-ping, and Other Himalayan Studies by Lieut. L B Rundall 1st Gurkha Rifles (Killed in Action Dec.19, 1914) 1915 Archive.org. With illustrations by the author.
• A Guide To Tiger Shooting 1920. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
• A Soldier's Shikar Trips by Brigadier General H G Mainwaring late South Wales Borderers (24th Regiment) 1920 Chapter V onwards is about India, from 1899. Archive.org
• Days and Nights of Shikar by Mrs W W Baillie 1921 Archive.org
• Big Game Hunting in the Himalayas and Tibet by Major G. Burrard RFA (Retired) 1925 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Pdf download, Digital Library of India
• Beyond Leh: A Shooting Trip in Ladakh, 1926 by K. W. Dickson, wife of R, a Medical Officer. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

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.

• "Suggestions as to the Cheapest Methods of Shooting Tiger in the Central Provinces, India" by Exile Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps 1934;62:1 pages 65-71.
• Shikar Memories by Henry Stotesbury Wood. 1934. Full title: Shikar Memories. A record of sport and observation in India and Burma. Pdf download, Digital Library of India
• 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. Pdf download, 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.
• 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.
• Have You Shot An Indian Tiger? by R D Mackay c 1968 Pdf download, Digital Library of India
• 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
• 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
• The Kadir [Cup] Sketches from My Sketch Book in the Shiny by Snaffles (Charlie Johnson Payne) 1930 Google Books