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The Inhuman Empire: Wildlife, Colonialism, Culture

The Inhuman Empire: Wildlife, Colonialism, Culture

Naithani, Sadhana

Paperback

Series: Empire and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-2000

Literary CriticismGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 1032700459
ISBN13: 9781032700458
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 28 2025
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 international roots. The Inhuman Empire breaks new grounds as it juxtaposes colonial narratives to folk narratives. These two types of narratives treat nonhuman animals very differently - folk narrative considers them sentient beings, while colonial narratives see them as 'game' and do not care for their sentience. Both types of narratives are further evaluated with reference to the contemporary position of natural sciences regarding animal sentience and of anthropologists and philosophers regarding the relationship between nature and culture. Analyzing colonial accounts of hunting, the author looks at the pain and suffering of nonhuman animals and combines statistics alongside narratives of British writers, Indian populace and nonhuman animals in order to show narratives' reflect and impact reality.

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