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Lets Go Shikar!
#263297 - 08/04/15 10:27 PM

A thread to re-visit the love of Shikar.

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What is "Shikar"?

Shikar is Urdu for the hunt and is derived from Persian. A shikari is a hunter. And "to shikar", or "shikars" and "shikarred" is to hunt.

Today we talk about going on a "safari" (swahili for journey) when we hunt in Africa. In the last century when hunting in India, the British sportsman or the Indian noble went on a "shikar".

Image: Sher Shikar tiger hunt in Kerala, in India.

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Re: Lets Go Shikar! [Re: NitroX]
#263304 - 08/04/15 11:32 PM

Let's Go Shikar!

Now those were the days. When a government advertised hunting and fishing trips around the world.

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Re: Lets Go Shikar! [Re: NitroX]
#263322 - 09/04/15 01:29 AM

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Re: Lets Go Shikar! [Re: NitroX]
#263323 - 09/04/15 01:30 AM

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Re: Lets Go Shikar! [Re: NitroX]
#263324 - 09/04/15 01:31 AM

King George V, mounted on elephant, departing for a shikar.

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Re: Lets Go Shikar! [Re: NitroX]
#263325 - 09/04/15 01:33 AM

King George V mounted on an elephant on shikar in Nepal in 1911

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Re: Lets Go Shikar! [Re: NitroX]
#263899 - 20/04/15 12:10 PM

Oh, to have a rich Aunty to provide me with a stipend so that I could travel the world as a gentleman adventurer.

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