Hunting accounts online

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

• "A Bibliography of Big Game Hunting and Shooting in India and the East" by Lt.-Col. R W Burton pages 222-241 Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, Volume 49, 1950. Archive.org.

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.

• Syanika Satra: or a Book on Hawking by Raja Rudradeva of Kumaon. Edited with an English translation by Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasada Shastri 1910. Archive.org. Originally written 13th-16th Century of the Christian era.
• Cynegetica : or, Essays on Sporting... Together with An Account of the Vizier’s Manner of Hunting in the Mogul Empire by William Blane. A new Edition 1788. An Account... for the years 1785 and 1786. Digital page 182. Archive.org. Blane is described (in Daniel Johnson's book page viii, which follows) as "formerly Surgeon to the Nawaub Vizier Asoph Ul Dowlah of Lucknow".
• 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 Field Sports as followed by the Natives of India with Observations on the Animals... by Daniel Johnson, formerly Surgeon in the East India Company’s Service and resident many years at Chittrah in Ramghur 1822 Archive.org. 1827 edition with title Sketches of Indian Field Sports: with Observations on the Animals by Daniel Johnson. Google Books. Relates mainly to the 1790s. The author left India in 1809.
• 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 HathiTrust Digital Library. Archive.org version.

"Indian Game", (from Quail to Tiger) by William Rice 1884 Archive.org

• Shooting In The Himalayas. A Journal of Sporting Adventures and Travel in Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet, Cashmere, etc. by Colonel Fred. Markham 32nd Regiment 1854. Archive.org.
• Records of Sport and Military Life in Western India by Lieut-Colonel Thomas Gamble Fraser 1881. British Library Digital. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Born 1807, he joined the Bombay Army, (1st Bombay Fusiliers), as a young Cadet, aged 16 c 1823 and retired 1st January 1856.
• Past Days in India, or Sporting reminiscences of the Valley of the Soane and the Basin of Singrowlee by a Late Customs’ Officer, N W Provinces, India. 1874 Archive.org. Set in the period prior to the Indian Mutiny. Mirzapore, Central India.
• The Hunting Grounds of the Old World by "The Old Shekarry" H A L [Henry Astbury Leveson] 2nd edition 1860. Includes India, Circassia and Algeria. 3rd edition 1865 New edition, 1871 All 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

• 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.
• ‪A Summer Ramble in the Himalayas: With Sporting Adventures in the Vale of Cashmere‬ Edited by Mountaineer [Frederick Wilson] 1860 Google Books.
• Narrative of a Residence at the Court of Meer Ali Moorad with Wild Sports in the Valley of the Indus by Edward Archer Langley, late Captain, Madras Cavalry. 1860. Volume I, Volume II Archive.org.
• Gunner Jingo's Jubilee by Major-General T Bland Strange. Late Royal Artillery 1893 Archive.org. Includes chapters when the author had leave in 1861, when he went on a six months hunting trek in Kashmir and Ladak. Thomas Bland Strange Wikipedia. “Strange, Thomas Bland” by Roderick C. Macleod in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 15, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003.
• 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
• The Eastern Hunters by Captain J T Newall 1866. 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

• Wanderings of a Naturalist in India : the Western Himalayas, and Cashmere by Andrew Leith Adams, Surgeon 22nd Regiment. 1867. Archive.org
• 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.
• 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.
• "Black Bear Shooting in the Himalayas" by G Beste Illustrated Travels : a record of discovery, geography and adventure Volume 3, of (catalogued) Volumes 3-4 elsewhere catalogued as 1871. Pages 120, 154, 186, 210, 284, 326. Archive.org
• The Highlands of Central India : notes on their forests and wild tribes, natural history, and sports by Captain J Forsyth, Bengal Staff Corps. First published 1871, when the author was formerly Assistant Conservator of Forests, Central India. 1871 edition, 1889 edition, 1919 edition Archive.org
• How I Killed the Tiger being An Account of my Encounter with a Royal Bengal Tiger by Lieut.-Colonel Frank Sheffield 1902. With illustrations. Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. The incident took place in 1871 at Palaspai, Midnapore, and the author was badly wounded.
• Wild Men and Wild Beasts: Scenes in Camp and Jungle by William Gordon-Cumming, 1872 Archive.org
• Sporting and military adventures in Nepaul and the Himalayas. A narrative of personal encounters and narrow escapes by Major Blaney Walshe [1875]. Archive.org. Although elsewhere catalogued as a personal account, this book appears to be an adventure novel.
• The Large and Small Game of Bengal and the Northwestern Provinces of India by Captain J H Baldwin, late of H P Bengal Staff Corps 1876 Archive.org
• A Narrative of Travel and Sport in Burmah, Siam and the Malay Peninsula by John Bradley 1876 Archive.org
• Sport and Travel in India and Central America by A. G. Bagot late 60th Rifles. 1897 Archive.org. ..."as it was some twenty odd years ago" (page 4)
• 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

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.

• Nilgiri Sporting Reminiscences by an Old Shikarri [G. A. R. D. ie G A R Dawson] 1880 Google Books. Also available HathiTrust Digital Library where the images may be rotated.
• The Sportsman's Guide to Kashmir & Ladak, etc. Reproduced with additions from letters which appeared in the "Asian." by A E Ward , Bengal Staff Corps. Second and revised edition 1883 Archive.org

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)

• Leaves from the Diaries of a Soldier and Sportsman during twenty years’ service in India Afghanistan Egypt and other countries 1865-1885 by Lt.-General Sir Montagu Gilbert Gerard 1903 Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Biographical details from Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement wikisource. Born 1842, he had a varied Army career, including Royal Artillery, Bengal Staff Corps, various missions and commissions, and took part in many military campaigns.
• 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

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 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
• Hindu-Koh: wanderings and wild sport on and beyond the Himalayas by Major General Donald Macintyre, VC, late Prince of Wales Own Goorkhas 1889 edition, 1891 edition 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.
• A First Bear-Shoot in Kashmir being a guide for would-be sportsmen of shrewd understanding but tender years by W Dutton Burrard 1892, published Allahabad. Pdf download PAHAR- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). Archive.org mirror version.
• Gun, Rifle, and Hound in East and West by "Snaffle" (Robert Dunkin) 1894. Archive.org. Includes chapters on India and Ceylon. The author appears to have been in the British Army.

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.

• Big Game Shooting, Volume II by Clive Phillipps-Wolley 1894 Archive.org. Part of The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. Includes India. (Volume I, Africa).
• 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.
• Sport in India and Somali Land, with Hints to Young Shikaries by J S Edye, Surgeon-Captain Army Medical Staff 1895. Archive.org.
• 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 on the Pamirs and Turkistan steppes by Major C S Cumberland 1895 Archive.org
• Sport in Ladakh. Five letters from “The Field” by F. E. S. A. [Sir Frederick Edward Shafto Adair] ; illustrated from photographs by R. S. A. 1895 Archive.org. Originally appeared in The Field newspaper.

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.

• 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
• A Trip to Kashmir by James Arbuthnot 1900. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library, Government of India
• Innermost Asia : travel & sport in the Pamirs by Ralph P Cobbold (late 60th Rifles) 1900 Archive.org
• Bullet and shot in Indian forest, plain and hill. With hints to beginners in Indian shooting by C E M Russell, late Senior Deputy Conservator of Forests, Mysore Service. 1900 Archive.org
• A Sportswoman in India: Personal Adventures and Experiences of Travel in Known and Unknown India by Isabel Savory 1900 Archive.org
• Sport and politics under an eastern sky by [Lawrence Zetland] the Earl of Ronaldsay 1902 Archive.org. Part I "In Pursuit of Wild Game in Highest Asia".
• Ibex Shooting on the Himalayas by Major Neville Taylor 1903. Archive.org, mirror from Pahar: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
• Sport and Travel in the Far East by J C Grew 1910 Archive.org. The travel (and sport) occurred in 1902-1903. Joseph Grew Wikipedia. He became an American diplomat, and from 1932-1941 was Ambassador to Japan.
• The Sportsman's Book for India by F G Aflalo 1904 Archive.org

A Book of the Wilderness and Jungle by F G Aflalo [1912] Archive.org

• "Sport in India" page 115 October 1904 Highland Light Infantry Chronicle. Catching a mahseer (fish), riding an elephant. Google Books.
• Elephant & Seladang Hunting in the Federated Malay States by Theodore R Hubback 1905 Archive.org
• A varied life: a record of military and civil service, of sport and of travel in India, Central Asia and Persia 1849 -1902 by Gen. Sir Thomas Edward Gordon. 1906 Archive.org. Gordon was the author of at least two other books, see Kashmir and Iran.
• "Two Months in Kashmir" by Captain T H Stevenson, Royal Army Medical Corps, page 308 Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps March 1907. jramc.bmj.com
• "Snipe Shooting at Mandalay" by Lieutenant-Colonel W Watson Pike, page 318 Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps March 1907. jramc.bmj.com
• "A Shooting Camp in Cooch Behar" page 97 July 1907 Highland Light Infantry Chronicle. Google Books.
• Hunting & Shooting in Ceylon by Harry Storey 1907. Archive.org. Includes elephant shooting
• 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. Fourth edition 1908. Seventh edition, 1928 Both Archive.org.
• Forty Years Among The Wild Animals Of India From Mysore To The Himalayas by F C Hicks , late Dy [Deputy] Conservator, Imperial Forest Service 1910 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

• 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.
• Big Game Shooting in Upper Burma by Major G P Evans, Indian Army 1911. Archive.org
• Sport on the Nilgiris and in Wynaad by F. W. F Fletcher 1911 Archive.org
• Roughing it in Southern India by Mrs M A Handley 1911 Archive.org. The author was the wife of a Forest Officer.
• Jungle by-ways in India; leaves from the note-book of a sportsman and a naturalist by Edward Percy Stebbing 1911. Archive.org. With illustrations by the author. The author spent sixteen years in the Indian Forest Service

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.

• Across the roof of the world; a record of sport and travel through Kashmir, Gilgit, Hunza, the Pamirs, Chinese Turkistan, Mongolia and Siberia by Lieut P T Etherton, 39th Garhwal Rifles (Indian Army) 1911 Archive.org
• Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes by N W Fergusson 1911 Archive.org
• Life in the Indian Police by Charles Elphinstone Gouldsbury 1912 Archive.org. The author joined the Bengal Police Department 20 June 1869, retired January 1903. Includes hunting accounts.

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.

• The Shikari : a Hunter's Guide by Claude H B Grant 1914. File 2. Both Archive.org.
• Jungle Sport in Ceylon from Elephant to Snipe by Marcus W Millett, an Old Ceylon Shikari. 1914 Achive.org
• From the Findmypast (pay website) database "King's Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle 1900-1920", which you must be signed in to view, the following article is from the 1914 Chronicle.

"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

• Indian memories; recollections of soldiering, sport, etc by Lieut-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell 1915. Archive.org. With illustrations by the author. He arrived in India in November 1876, an officer in the 13th Hussars. The book probably mainly relates to his early years in India. For a book on pigsticking, see further below.
• 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.
• Big Game Shooting In Lower Burma by Sydney A Christopher .. Advocate of the Chief Court of Lower Burma 1916 Archive.org.

• The Wanderings of a Temporary Warrior : a territorial officer's narrative of service (and sport) in three continents by Captain Alban F L Bacon (late Hampshire Regiment) [2/4 Battalion] 1922. Archive.org. The regiment was stationed in Quetta much of the time it was in India January 1915-April 1917. He went duck shooting around Quetta, and in Sind.
• With Pen and Rifle in Kishtwar by Otto Rothfeld 1918. The author was a member of the Indian Civil Service. He describes Kishtwar as, "…the province of Kishtwar, situated between Kashmir and Chamba on the way to Simla, and ruled by H. H. the Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu". Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the book download does not display, locate the digital file under Books. Archive.org mirror version.
• "Struma Valley 1919" [Southern Macedonia] page 166, USI [United Service Institution Of India] Journal Vol.lxxii Jan to Oct 1942. Archive.org. Hunting wild fowl, on leave in December 1919 from the author’s regiment in Constantinople, part of the Army of the Black Sea.
• A Guide To Tiger Shooting by Madhav Rao Scindia 1920. Archive.org version, mirror from 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
• "A Shooting Trip in Chamba" by F L Farrer page 318 Blackwood’s Magazine, no 211 January-June 1922 Archive.org
• 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.
• 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.
• Big Game Hunting in the Himalayas and Tibet by Major G. Burrard RFA (Retired) 1925 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Download from PAHAR- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). If download does not display, look under Books/Himalaya and Karakoram. Archive.org mirror version
• Musings of an Old Shikari : Reflections on Life and Sport in Jungle India by Colonel A I R Glasfurd, (late Indian Army) 1928. Archive.org, Ministry of Culture Collection. The period from 1870.
• 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. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes reference to the Madras Hunt.
• Indian Jungle Lore and the Rifle : being notes on Shikar and Wild Animal Life by “Silver Hackle” 1929. Archive.org, Ministry Of Culture/Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad Collection.
• The Preservation of Shikar Trophies by Van Ingen and Van Ingen [of Mysore] 1929. University of Florida Digital Collections.
• 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

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. jramc.bmj.com and Archive.org.

• Mountain Magic by Eve Orme [1945]. Travel to Ladakh in 1926 with her Army officer husband who was on a shooting-trip. Mainly about the travel, but some hunting descriptions.
• The Cavalry Journal, Vol.XX January to October 1930 Archive.org.
  • "Hunting – And “F.S.R.”" by Major A J Clifton. By kind permission of the Editor, Royal Tank Corps Journal. Pages 555-565 (“F.S.R.” probably Field Service Regulations)
  • Hints on Pigsticking for the Beginner by the late P H Phillips Brocklehurst, Royal Scots Greys. Pages 630-633.
• "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. Archive.org
• 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. Archive.org mirror version. 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.
• 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. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
• "A Panther Shoot with “Ranji” in Kathiawar" by Colonel F A Hamilton, Late 3rd Cavalry page 78 The Cavalry Journal Volume 24 1934 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
• 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

• The Rod in India : being hints how to obtain sport, with remarks on the natural history of fish and their culture, and illustrations of fish and tackle by Henry Sullivan Thomas, Madras Civil Service, Archive.org. 1873 edition, Revised 2nd edition 1881, Revised 3rd edition 1897

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.

• North Punjab Fishing Club Anglers' Handbook by G H Lacy, Bengal Staff Corps 1888 Archive.org.

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.

• Angling in the Kumaun Lakes by W Walker MD [Depy.Surgeon-General] 1888 Archive.org
• The Mighty Mahseer and Other Fish; Or Hints to Beginners on Indian Fishing by Skene-Dhu (Cecil Lang) 1903 Archive.org.

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

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• Hints to Amateurs on Tank Angling in India by P N Bhattacharyya 1915 Archive.org
• Trout Fishing in Kashmir by Lt.-Col. Alban Wilson, late 1st Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles 1920 Archive.org
• "Trout Fishing in Kashmir" by "R H" page 64 Journal of the United Service Institution of India Volume 67, 1937. Archive.org
• "Mahseer Fishing" by Captain J R Morris, 9th Gurkha Rifles. "Mahseer Fishing - I Theory" page 337 "Mahseer Fishing - II Tackle" page 476 Journal of the United Service Institution of India Volume 67, 1937. Archive.org
• Circumventing The Mahseer and Other Sporting Fish in India and Burma by A St. J MacDonald. Archive.org. Stated elsewhere to have been published 1948 but individual chapters were published in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 1942-1944

1992 reprint Archive.org

Game Birds

• The Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon by Hume and Marshall 1879. With coloured plates. Archive.org.Volume I, Volume II. Volume III
• Game, Shore and Water Birds of India by Colonel A Le Messurier R E . With illustrations. 3rd edition 1888 (first edition c 1874) Archive.org

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

• A Manual of the Game Birds of India by Eugene W Oates Part I – Land Birds 1898; Part II - Water Birds 1899. Archive.org
• The Indian Ducks and their Allies by E C Stuart Baler. With Coloured Plates 1908 Archive.org.
• The Game Birds of India and Asia by Frank Finn, late Deputy Superintendent Indian Museum. 1911 Archive.org.
• The Ducks Of India: Their Habits, Breeding Grounds And Migrations; Together With Other Useful Information for the Sportsman and Observer by R G Wright and Douglas Dewar 1925 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Poor quality images, lacking the original coloured plates.