Tiger Shikars: The wodeyars’ construction of a Rajput identity through sport (Record no. 529390)
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| Personal name | Abraham, Tresa |
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| Title | Tiger Shikars: The wodeyars’ construction of a Rajput identity through sport |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Modern Asian Studies |
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| Extent | 58(3), May, 2024: p.786-804 |
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| Summary, etc | This article explores the practice of the sport of tiger hunting among the Wodeyars, the maharajas of Mysore, through an examination of art, archival records, state gazetteers, and a tour diary of Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV. It argues that the Wodeyars only adopted the sport as an expression of kingship in the late nineteenth century, under British influence. This, I posit, was part of their larger attempt to align their kingship to more popular Indian modes, specifically the Rajputs. By reading accounts of the sport in Krishnaraja Wodeyar’s tour diary, along with examining the Wodeyars’ attempts at forging kinship relations with the Rajputs, the article demonstrates how the sport became crucial to the Wodeyars’ assertion of a Rajput identity and to attempts to obtain a higher position in the princely hierarchy of the colonial period. The recognition that the success of tiger hunts was significant to Rajput kingship and identity, along with rising concern over the diminishing tiger population, led the Wodeyars to enclose forests, establish private hunting preserves and a shikar department, and classify tiger as game in an attempt to improve the sport and make it exclusive.- Reproduced https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/tiger-shikars-the-wodeyars-construction-of-a-rajput-identity-through-sport/235E678497AF4D1710906E68D93D07B2 |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Tiger shikars, Mysore princely state, Indian kingship, British colonialism. |
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| Indian Institute of Public Administration | Indian Institute of Public Administration | 2025-03-17 | 58(3), May, 2024: p.786-804 | AR135388 | 2025-03-17 | Articles |