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Discusses the production and circulation of animal narratives in colonial India in order to investigate the constructs of animals played into a variety of forms of othering that took place in England during its imperial venture.

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Foreword List of Illustrations Glossary Introduction: Why the Animal? Or, Can the Subaltern Roar, and Other Risky Questions. Some Theoretical Frameworks Animals, Children, and Street Urchins Herein the British Nimrod May View a New and Arduous Species of the Chase: Hunting narratives 1757-1857 Our Rightful Claim to Superiority as a Dominant Race: Hunting narratives 1857-1947 Animals, Humans, and Natural Laws: Kipling and Forster Making Kingdoms Out of Beasts Notes Illustration Credits Select Bibliography Index

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SHEFALI RAJAMANNAR is an associate director of the Upper Division in the Writing Program at the University of Southern California, USA.

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