The Inhuman Empire: Wildlife, Colonialism, Culture

This book is a study of selected texts of British writings on Indian wildlife published between 1860 and 1960.

Set in the context of British colonial rule in India, this book also reflects on similar situations across the British Empire and other colonial empires. The destruction of wildlife in the making of empires is a subject not yet fully explored in scholarship. This book aims to speak to global concerns regarding the extinction of several species and shows that the crisis has interna...