Fourth in our series of pre-Great War photographs is this action shot, entitled simply ‘Beating for tiger’. Though the location is unstated, this image is likely to be in India rather than Tibet. There’s no doubt that what’s happening here is a tiger hunt, only one – and certainly not the least – of the shameful acts carried out by British officers during that nation’s subjugation and occupation of India and the surrounding regions.
Images such as this are an important record of the plunder and pillage mentality of imperialist powers through the ages.
Fourth in our series of pre-Great War photographs is this action shot, entitled simply ‘Beating for tiger’. Though the location is unstated, this image is likely to be India rather than Tibet.
There’s no doubt that what’s happening here is a tiger hunt, only one – and certainly not the least – of the shameful acts carried out by British officers during that nation’s subjugation and occupation of India and the surrounding regions.
Images such as this are an important record of the plunder and pillage mentality of imperialist powers through the ages.