Indian Women

Young women, and some men too, pose in traditional dress for the camera of Jim Corbett, a well-known Anglo-Indian hunter and later conservationist. This film was likely shot in northern India. Corbett was also an author and naturalist, who wrote about his exploits hunting tigers and leopards in India. Hunting was usually the focus of his amateur film, making this one all the more unusual. India’s oldest national park was renamed the Jim Corbett National Park in his honour in 1957.

Edward James "Jim" Corbett (1875–1955) was one of India’s most famous big game hunters – and, improbably, one of its most significant conservationists. Born in 1875 in Nainital, Corbett became an enthusiastic hunter (although later only of known man-eaters) and recorded his exploits in a series of books including Man-Eaters of Kumaon - hugely popular boys’ own adventures that continue to be widely read. Corbett progressed from shooting the wildlife to preserving it and helped to form both the Association for the Preservation of Game in the United Provinces and the All-India Conference for the Preservation of Wild Life. Corbett left India with the rest of the British in 1947, and moved to Kenya where he wrote most of his bestsellers. He died there in 1955. The Jim Corbett National Park is still one of the best places to see wild tigers in India.