The culture I have learned on IFG...

[BowMan]

Further search has revealed that the tiger may actually have been shot by Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Edward Adeane, Baron Adeane who is standing second from right in the photograph and Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Douglas Bonham-Carter. I cannot identify the Admiral in the picture.

To quote from Wikipedia 'In 1961 during a Royal visit to Nepal he was credited with a share a tiger kill with Sir Christopher Bonham-Carter in a royal tiger hunt.[2] The tiger shooting role had fallen to him after the Queen had declined, the Duke of Edinburgh had been unable to shoot due to having his trigger finger in a splint and the then Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home had missed twice.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ad ... ron_Adeane

Alec Douglas - Home could be the one standing behind Queen Elizabeth.

[vivekpeter]

The Kid should be told to take is foot off where he has placed it.

A King should always be respected; even a dead King.

The majestic animal should be respected!

[timmy]

Timmy,
> Was your omission to identify the lady standing next to Maharani Gayatri Devi & the gentleman on the extreme left a "faux pas" or ..........
> They are Princess Elizabeth the heir apparent to the British Throne & her husband the Duke of Edinburgh
Briha

Exactly what I was thinking.
Expect one to identify the Queen of England first.
Timmy you must have been an Indian in one of your previous births.

Gentlemen:

Yes, that is Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip in that photo, and it was, as observed, a tiger hunt in 1961. My brother and I were discussing hunting and he showed me this in the course of our conversation.

On noting the Maharani first, I suppose that protocol would have expected I observe her husband before her, as well. However, I must note that personally, I'm not much of a royalist. The idea was, I suppose, to recognize that there were more than a couple of noteworthy people in the photo and also to note that Gayatri Devi was also a person worthy of notice.

And, of course, I wanted to twist my Brother's beard a bit (after all, he has a large one!).

Prashant, thank you for your compliment. I am trying to recall another time when I've received such a gracious one!

[Safarigent]

As a side note,
I notice that both the elephants have their foreheads blackened.
On one of my jaunts in rajasthan, i had asked a mahout what it was and they said that it was a mixture of mustard oil, kohl and some herbs, if memory serves right. It helps keep the animals cools. I have a photo somewhere, will dig it up and post it here for comaprison.
Best

[xl_target]

Timmy is just pointing out that he was able to identify people other than the queen and her husband .

As for feeling sorry for the tiger,I am sure had not the hunters killed all those tigers we would have seen them walking on the streets along with all the stray dogs,cows.....Why on the streets? Because there are no forests in India that can even support the number of tigers we had in 1947.

It is the fellow with the axe,the fellow in the Gandhi topi,the 'poor refugee from Tibet' and his occupier who have done more to bring the tiger to it's present state than the fellow with a rifle.

Well said, Winnie.

I notice, in the the article, posted by Bowman that there were as usual plenty of protesters blaming the hunter. It is not the hunters who should be singled out for criticism. Deforestation and habit loss have done more to destroy the Tiger than any amount of hunting. When the British left India, there were plenty of Tigers even after decades of hunting. What the British did was to preserve India's forests assiduously. As Winnie notes, we have failed miserably in this task. However, it is always easy to blame the hunter than to actually do anything about the problem.