Don't have any details but the pictures are interesting

Thanks for sharing. You can read some details here http://www.expressindia.com/la...dead-at-last/427708/

Thanks for the post, a deserving end of the Man eater.

Tiger is a very regal trophy and I envy those past hunters who were able to hunt this magnifcent cat.

The foot wound appears almost certainly to be from one of the shots taken by the Forest Guards last month.

Thanks. Nice hole in the tiger`s head. Somebody heard of Nawab Shafat Ali Khan of Hyderabad before? In Caracals link they say he is an "expert shooter called for the purpose". Sounds like a todays Corbett or Kenneth Anderson. I´m jealous.
Thanks for posting.

Thank you for posting.

The comments by the 'environmentalists' are insane .I guess it's OK for the tiger to kill people !

Maybe his bum paw forced this tiger to change diets. Amazing animals, and what a lucky SOB that guy is to have the job entrusted to him!

Neat pics. Thanks for posting.

What an adventure.

Seems like the hunter never visits hunting forums or he would have known that .458 Win is a waste of good metal

He must get it re chambered to the mighty Lott.

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Somebody heard of Nawab Shafat Ali Khan of Hyderabad before?

I have met the Nawab several times, both he & his wife are excellent shots, they have a lovely ancestral property in the middle of a national park, you can watch elephants, bison (indian gaur) from the verandah of the house while having a cup of tea.

Harris,

One does not have the luxury of buying a rifle of your choice in India, import of firearms has been banned since the early 70's, one has to make do with what is available. I am surprised the Nawab did not use his heavy double rifle, probably the cartridges are too old and not reliable..

lynx

Lynx,

from your last post I understand a Nawab is a title like e.g. Raja. That`s interesting. I thought it was just a name. What is the Nawab`s social/ political position in today`s India?

Now I understand why they call him an experienced hunter for tiger

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Originally posted by Dentist:
Lynx,

from your last post I understand a Nawab is a title like e.g. Raja. That`s interesting. I thought it was just a name. What is the Nawab`s social/ political position in today`s India?

The term is Urdu, borrowed via Persian from the Arabic being the honorific plural of naib i.e. 'deputy'. In some areas, especially Bengal, the term is pronounced Nobab. This later variation has entered the English and other foreign languages, see below.

The title Nawab or Nawaab is basically derived from the title of the four nayab (deputies) of 12th and last Imam (Imam-e-zamana) of the Shia sect. That is why most Shia rulers have called them Nawab instead of Sultan or King.

The term Nawab is often used to refer to any Muslim ruler in north India while the term Nizam is preferred for their counterparts in south India. This is technically imprecise, as the title was also awarded to others but not applied to every Muslim ruler. With the decline of that empire the title, and the powers that went with it, became hereditary in the ruling families in the various provinces.

Under later British rule, Nawabs continued to rule various princely states of Awadh, Amb, Bahawalpur, Baoni, Banganapalle, Bhopal, Cambay, Jaora, Junagadh, Kurnool, Kurwai, Palanpur, Pataudi, Rampur, Sachin and Tonk. Other former rulers bearing the title, such as the Nawabs of Bengal and Oudh, had been dispossessed by the British or others by the time the Mughal dynasty finally ended in 1857.

The style for a Nawab's queen is Begum or Nawabzadi. Most of the Nawab dynasties were male primogenitures, although several ruling Begums of Bhopal and Ruchka Begum of TikaitGanj, near Lucknow were a notable exception.

Before the incorporation of India into the British Empire, Nawabs ruled the kingdoms of Awadh (or Oudh, encouraged by the British to shed the Mughal suzereignty and assume the imperial style of Badshah), Bengal, Arcot and Bhopal.

A few of the Muslim rulers who were tributary to the Mughal emperors used other titles; the first Nizam of Hyderabad was given the alternative title Nizam-ul-Mulk, usually translated as Governor of the Mughal kingdom.

Titles were abolished in the 70's by the govt but most people specially in rural India still address former rulers with their titles out of respect...

The above description of nawab is courtsey iqbal from another forum

Wonder why it took 4 months to catch up with this beast? Nawab. Possibly a variation of Nabob, the meaning of which, is very similar?
Grizz

It took Corbin some times years to catch up and kill a maneater. 4 months dosen't seem to bad.

Some of the old families still maintain a vestige of thier former glory, a 'nawab' is a title of nobility.Judging from the canon, the chap would have to be no less than a nawab to aford the ammo in India.The good stuff is hard to come buy and its easier to pull your teeth out with pliers and no anaesthesia compared to the pain inflicted on your wallet by the dealers.
Besides being in a position to actually afford the hardware one has to have considerable political influence to come to become a licence holder.
I've 'cleaned'a lot of guns growing up in Bombay, and politely, have been asked to leave the premises of the Gunshops in crawford Market several times when i was a boy, but i have never laid eyes on a .458 in India.

I still have a few cartriges i found (.458 lott, and .416 rigby)in an old house that i had entered to catch a snake that was bothering the neighbours.

Ahhh the motherland, if i close my eyes i can taste the sugarcane crush and see the beautiful women, sarees rustling.....

I say Congratulations to HIM. Well done.

That is a BIG CAT.

Tigers can be very dangerous.