Dan Seitz

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Elaborate tiger hunts, conducted on a rotating basis at a series of royal hunting reserves throughout their empire, served a function that was diplomatic, militaristic, and even religious. By incorporating local villagers as beaters and headmen as organizers, they were able to forge cooperative alliances with distant vassal states, while at the same time make a clear demonstration of their martial capacity should those alliances ever break down.
No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Man-Eater in History
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