Elephants and kings : an environmental history / Thomas Trautmann.
Material type: TextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource : mapsContent type:- text
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- Elephants -- War use -- India -- History
- Asiatic elephant -- India -- History
- India -- History, Military
- India -- Kings and rulers -- History
- Asiatic elephant -- Ecology -- India -- History
- Forest conservation -- India -- History
- Éléphants -- Utilisation militaire -- Inde -- Histoire
- Éléphant d'Asie -- Inde -- Histoire
- Éléphant d'Asie -- Écologie -- Inde -- Histoire
- Forêts -- Conservation -- Inde -- Histoire
- HISTORY -- Military -- Other
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science
- Asiatic elephant
- Asiatic elephant -- Ecology
- Elephants -- War use
- Forest conservation
- Kings and rulers
- India
- Asiatischer Elefant
- Kriegführung
- Indien
- India
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- UH100.5.E44 T73 2015eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Retreat and persistence of elephants -- Elephants and Indian kingship -- War elephants -- Structures of use: caturaga, vihana, vyha -- Elephant knowledge -- The spread of the war elephant -- North India, South India, Sri Lanka -- The Near East, North Africa, Europe -- Southeast Asia -- After the war elephant -- Drawing the balance, looking ahead.
Print version record.
Because of their enormous size, elephants have been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In the early civilisations - Egypt, Assyria and Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilisation, China - kings have used elephants in royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, and the conspicuous consumption of ivory - all of them tending toward the elephant's extinction. But the kings of India, as Thomas Trautmann writes in this book, found a use for elephants that actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers in the wild: war.
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