In a surprisingly prescient and sensitive editorial published in 1908 titled “A Wronged Animal: Justice for the Tiger,” The Times of India made the case—no doubt scandalous at the time—that the tiger was “not only a harmless but a useful member of Indian society,” and that the colonial government was “oblivious to the really valuable services the vast majority of tigers render to the Indian cultivator—services unsullied by wrong doing or even intimidation.”
