Sharma, V. (2016). Rise and fall of the ‘man-eater’: The changing science and technology of a species (1860-present). History and Sociology of South Asia, 10(1), 53–73. https://doi.org/10.1177/2230807515600087 There are thrilling, chilling descriptions of everything from sitting up in a tree with a tiger scratching at the trunk below, to the frustrating—and dangerous—uncertainty brought on by having one ear deafened thanks to a gunshot. Most of all, there are Corbett’s brilliant insights into jungle life: the dynamics of it, the symbiosis, the hows and whys and whats. This, coupled with Corbett’s obvious affection and respect for the people of these hills, is what makes this (like all of Corbett’s books on his adventures in this part of the world) so immensely readable. He also had a greater knowledge, understanding, and love of India and its people than most of those today who would write him off a ‘colonialist.’ He was nothing of the sort: born and raised in India, he never saw it as anything but India. To this day there is a national park there named after him. Abridged Educational Edition published for schools under the title 'The Mohan Man-Eater and Other Stories' – illustrated by C.H.G. Moorhouse

Rani, P. & Kumar, N. (2017). Man-eaters of Kumaon: a critique of modernity. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 9(1), 206–215. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v9n1.21. Just Tigers: Corbett talks about the importance of conservation and his love of photographing tigers in the place of shooting them I read a little about Corbett on the internet and came to know that though he was a regular hunter, he turned into a conservationalist and a naturalist. While reading the book, I came across quite interesting passages like Corbett describing tigers as a beautiful and a proud animal. He had never looked at a tiger with hate or disgust. He had utmost love for the animal and it pained him when anyone used the phrase "blood thirsty as a tiger". He had no doubt killed a lot of tigers and for me that is kind of unforgivable but I cannot ignore that he was the same guy who took to lecturing groups of schoolchildren about their natural heritage and the need to conserve forests and their wildlife. Biermann, C. (2016). Securing forests from the scourge of chestnut blight: The biopolitics of nature and nation. Geoforum, 75, 210–219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.07.007 Mandala, V. R. (2019). Shooting a tiger: Big-game hunting and conservation in colonial India. Oxford University Press.Corbett held the rank of colonel in the British Indian Army and was frequently called upon by the government of the United Provinces, now the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, to kill man-eating tigers and leopards that were harassing people in the nearby villages of the Garhwal and Kumaon region. His hunting successes earned him a long-held respect and fame amongst the people residing in the villages of Kumaon. Some even claim that he was considered to be a sadhu (saint) by the locals. Mhangore, G. S. (2013). Jim Corbett’s conservationist approach towards the wildlife of India. International Journal of Advance and Applied Research, 1(2), 85–89. Chrulew, M. (2017). Animals as biopolitical subjects. In M. Chrulew & D. S. Wadiwel (Eds.), Foucault and animals (pp. 222–238). Brill. Jim Corbett, Sahib and master of hunting, walks the reader through 7 tales of his hunting - and destroying - man-eating tigers. As Corbett patiently explains, humans are not tigers' natural nor preferred prey, and tigers resort to man only if the animal suffers a physical ailment that causes it to seek out an easy target. Sometimes these ailments are from animal injury or human intervention, regardless of the cause the animals soon begins to prowl for human flesh.

The Bachelor of Powalgarh: The exciting tale of how Corbett shot the much sought after trophy tiger (non man-eater) in 1930. The Kanda Man-eater: The third of the three man-eaters requested for dispatch at the 1929 conference. Shot in 1933. Game hunting on the trail of the maneater is right outside a documentary and Corbett relives his hunts through the chapters. The fact that he is an excellent shot makes the hunting process easier. Die Geschichten ähneln sich stark. Corbett bindet ein Ochsen oder eine Ziege als Köder an die Stelle, wo als letztes ein Mensch gefressen wurde und klettert auf einen Baum, um dem Tiger aufzulauern. Häufig muss er die Tiger tagelang durch die Wildnis verfolgen.

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Jhala, Y. V., Qureshi, Q. & Yadav, S. P. (2020b). Status of leopards in India, 2018 (technical report TR/2020/16). National Tiger Conservation Authority, Government of India, New Delhi, and Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. https://ntca.gov.in/assets/uploads/Reports/AITM/Status_Leopard_India_2018web.pdf The Chowgarh tigers: The first of three man-eaters Corbett was to shoot on government request at a 1929 district conference. It turned out to be a pair of two tigers, a mother and its grown cub, which had together killed 64 people between 1925 and 1930. The cub was shot in April 1929 and the mother on 11 April 1930.

Pandian, A.S. (2001). Predatory care: The imperial hunt in Mughal and British India. Journal of Historical Sociology, 14(1), 79–107. Corbett’s pursuit of this wounded animal, is both dramatic and disturbing. Though he is as wounded and handicapped as the tiger he hunts, yet he perseveres: out of love, out of duty, out of respect and reverence for the life he must take. Twenty-five years later, when he writes the story, he says “. . . time does not efface events graven deep on memory’s tablets, and the events of the five days I spent hunting the man-eating tiger of Talla Des are as clear-cut and fresh in my memory today as they were twenty-five years ago.”

but was found to be the Chowgarh Tigers - villages who thought they were being terrorised by one man-eater, when there were actually two! The ‘Great White Hunter’ genre has fallen out of favour, especially with the media classes. Yet perhaps we must question whether, in replacing old prejudices with new, we can in fact be less broad-minded than our ancestors, who in many ways had no choice but to develop a practical knowledge of the world in which they lived. Corbett, J. (2015b [1954]). The temple tiger and more man-eaters of Kumaon (39th imp.). Oxford University Press.