This book presents a comprehensive account of the popular animals and birds used and abused by humans from the times of kings and queens until recent times in India. After immense research, the author describes the culture and traditions of the place along with the myths attached to certain practices. In addition, the book includes simple yet beautiful illustrations that complement the narrative beautifully.

This book presents a comprehensive account of the popular animals and birds used and abused by humans from the times of kings and queens until recent times in India. After immense research, the author describes the culture and traditions of the place along with the myths attached to certain practices. In addition, the book includes simple yet beautiful illustrations that complement the narrative beautifully.

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Beast and Man in India - A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in their Relations with the People. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by John Lockwood Kipling, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have Beast and Man in India - A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in their Relations with the People in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Beast and Man in India - A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in their Relations with the People: Look inside the book: But that does not preserve the ox, the horse, and the ass from being unmercifully beaten, over-driven, over-laden, under-fed, and worked with sores under their harness; nor does it save them from abandonment to starvation when unfit for work, and to a lingering death which is made a long torture by birds of prey, whose beaks, powerless to kill outright, inflict undeserved torment. ...The topsy-turvy morality of the East would give a higher place to the Levitically clean Hindu, who would die sooner than eat flesh, but who would also rather die than touch or help a dying man of a low caste near his door, than to the English lady whose life is spent in active beneficence, but who is defiled by eating beef and approaching the dead body of a pig. ...Our modern school-books, in which lessons on animal life and humane animal treatment are wisely included, may do something in the course of time to lighten this 'blind side' of Oriental character, and in a few generations we may hope for an Indian student of natural history.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1904.