The Story of Asia’s Lions

Description

The book evaluates efforts made for the conservation of the species in the first half of the 20th century by British administrators and more remarkably by the last two nawabs of Junagadh. The status in independent India is recorded, with indications of what the future holds for the lion in the 21st century. The work is of a unique nature as very rarely has an account of any species from historical times been attempted, one exception being this author’s internationally acclaimed research on the cheetah in India. While there are innumerable books on the lions of Africa, there have been only three books about the lions in India ever written in English, none of which is easily accessible.