Hello
is there any hunting in India today, I know the tribals still hunt. If there isn't it is a shame as there are overstocked game areas in India that could earn money. What about on private land?

Macawber

The only hunting that is permitted in India is on a crop protection permit in some states and typically you can hunt boar (the most common and fairly large animals at that) fox and rabbit and probably other vermin in some parts of the country. Hunting is only allowed on private agricultural land (hence the crop protection permits) and there have been calls from the states of Haryana and Himachal to include the Nilgai there among the list of animals allowed for hunting as there are too many of them.

In early 2003 for the first time on over 30 years four leopards were allowed to be hunted in Satara in Maharashtra though the animal rights groups made a hue and cry and hunting has been stopped altogether even though thickly populated urban areas like Mumbai are threatened in some places by them as are states like Himachal Pradesh.

The old days of Indian hunting are dead - you would see an apology for the grand days of conservation as well as the country has become a basket case. What little hunting remain, though, is extremely popular particularly in Central India where gun licenses are much easier to acquire than in the West and parts of the South.

Good hunting!