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Re: Queens doubles q`s
      20/12/07 12:15 PM

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still searching JH though this link is all very "pukka'

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030406/spectrum/main3.htm




A lot of bias in that article however against the British. In actual fact the Majarajah's and their ilk did vastly the majority of hunting in India. The "Viceroy's forest" would have been just one very similar to all the royal reserved areas for Indian nobility.

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To pamper their egos, every tiger shot by the goras was declared as invariably ten-feet long. If the laat sahibs were not good shots, beaters gathered every bird shot and "put them in a flattering pile beside the imperial butts." Imagine a few staggering figures of ‘bags’ — animals killed for pleasure. Bengal civil servant George Yule bagged 500 tigers in 28 years, Maharaja of Surguja killed 1710, Duke of Windsor shot 17 tigers in one week in 1921, while two were shot later during the visit of Queen Elizabeth to Ranthambhor in 1961. The Cooch Behar Maharaja alone bagged 365 tigers, 311 leopards, 438 buffaloes and 207 rhinos.




A little bit of modern India trying to re-write its own history.

Interesting reading however.

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