Shikarer Dinguli (BENGALI) Reminiscences of A Hunter

Author: Kedambadi Jattappa Rai
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Debabrata Gangopadhaya
Publisher: National Book Trust
Year: 2007
Language: Bengali
Pages: 95
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788123749914

Description

An Bangla translation of Kannada original, this book is a narrative of the exciting adventures and acts of courage on the part of the writer.

But more importantly, it authentically portrays a section of Indian society as it existed a hundred years ago : its beliefs and rituals, its food habits and hunting codes, and the relationship that existed between the colonial masters and their native subjects.

This is a work that would interest not only lovers of literature but also social historians and anthropologists.

Contents

Foreword

1 Prelude
2 My First Tiger
3 Montu and the Whiskers of a Tiger
4 Kunhimonu Cudgels a Tiger to Death
5 Danger in Darkness
6 With a British Family at Kudremukh
7 A Battle Royal between a Tiger and a Boar
8 The Guard Confronts a Tiger
9 My Friend, Kunhimonu Barry