the techniques the English adopted were not substantially different from those of their Mughal predecessors. They sat perched in the same howdah, atop the same elephant, while the same local shikaris served as guides, and the same villagers were drafted to beat the tigers out of the bushes. The hunt had all the familiar ostentation, all the connotations of military might, and much the same ritualistic importance as that of the Mughals’. The fundamental difference, however, was what the ritual signified. The tiger held a different implication for the British than for the Mughals and other
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