The Inhuman Empire

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

Sadhana Naithani is a professor of literature and folklore at the Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research interest is in seeing cultural transformations through narratives. Two of her books are In Quest of Indian Folktales (2006) and The Story Time of the British Empire (2010).

1. The Hunted, their Witnesses and the Hunters' Narratives 2. The Majestic Elephant Meets the Government of Her Majesty 3. The Multispecies World of the Indian Householder 4. The Tiger Obsession 5. The Tiger Grips the Narrator 6. The Narrative Warfare 7. To New Narratives