Jim Corbett (1875–1955) was a well-known hunter of man-eating tigers and leopards in the Garhwal and Kumaon region (present-day Uttaranchal state) in India, for thirty-two years, between 1907 and 1910, as well as in the 1920s and 1930s. Corbett’s man-eating tiger narratives are much admired even today, in that they distinguish him from other colonial hunters in India, or even the nineteenth century big-game hunters. His localised approach towards the people of Uttaranchal and the due confession of remorse that he expressed regarding the tigers he shot are both factors that make him stand apart in the history of wildlife hunting and conservation. In colonial rural India, predatory attacks on humans, village livestock and infrastructural development works were endemic, and it was the…
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Citation: Mandala, Vijaya Ramadas. "Jim Corbett". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 November 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13863, accessed 20 April 2024.]
