A Bird’s-Eye View of the Raj
Sep 11, 2021
2 minutes
-Sonal Shah
Thomas Hardwicke, it wasn’t enough to employ an artist to paint the birds he came across in India. The naturalist and British East India Company (EIC) officer also “employed a shikaari to shoot and preserve specimens” for the “largest and most notable” collection of his time—as noted in an
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