Author Description

This book talks about the experiences of hunter and conservationist Jim Corbett, during his years in the United Provinces or what is now known as Uttarakhand. Here we see a different side to Corbett, not as the intrepid hunter of big cats but a man who blends seamlessly with the mountain folk of Northern India. The spiritual side of Jim Corbett, as well as his sense of comedy, have been missed by his biographers. In all of his works, Jim has provided abundant proof of this. Corbett recounts an incident in his book that man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag in which he was compelled to spend the night on a pine tree and was killed by a sudden gust of wind. Jim Corbett played a key role in establishing, India's first national park in the Kumaon Hills, the Hailey National Park, in Uttarakhand, India. It was initially named after, Lord Malcolm Hailey. Jim Corbett died on 19 April 1955. The park was renamed in 1957 as, The Jim Corbett National Park. It was named after him to honour his role in establishing this protected area in 1930s. MY India sketches the kind and tender human being within the ruthless hunter. With sympathy and concern, this book details Corbett's intense love for India and Indians, and also portrays the life, tradition and folklore of rural India - which at the time of Corbett are mostly remote from any modern transport facilities and secluded amongst other similar villages or vast jungles.