Resources
Web Sites
National
Geographic Channel: India
http://www.nationalgeographic.co.in/
explore/otbt/bandhavgarh.asp
Detailed account of a filmmaker's visit to Bandhavgarh, which included an encounter
with the tiger Charger. The site also features a useful factsheet about the park.
GORP:
India's National Parks
http://www.gorp.com/gorp/location/
asia/india/np_band.htm
Information on Bandhavgarh, the locale for LIVING EDENS: TEMPLE OF THE TIGERS.
Bandhavgarh National
Park
http://www.wildlywise.com/bnp_index.htm
More facts about the park, and its native wildlife.
BBC
News: India's Tiger Success Story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/
sci/tech/newsid_1565000/1565437.stm
Article about the doubling of the tiger population at the Panna Tiger Reserve
in Madhya Pradesh.
Tiger
Trust: Saving India's Tigers
http://www.indiantiger.com/trust/
Organization working to protect the natural habitat of India's tigers.
In
the Jungle with Sita
http://www.gorp.com/gorp/activity/
wildlife/tiger.htm
A filmmaker's encounter with Sita, a famous tiger of Bandhavgarh, is recounted
on this GORP page adapted from the National Geographic Society's "The Year
of the Tiger."
Welcome
to Madhya Pradesh
http://www.traveliteindia.com/guide/
state/madhya.htm
Travel site featuring information on India's largest state, often referred to
as "the heart of India."
Books
Breeden, Stanley and Belinda Wright. THROUGH THE TIGER'S EYES: A CHRONICLE OF
INDIA'S WILDLIFE. Ten Speed Press, 1997.
Michell, George. THE HINDU TEMPLE: AN INTRODUCTION TO ITS MEANING AND FORMS.
University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Nichols, Michael and Geoffrey C. Ward. THE YEAR OF THE TIGER. National Geographic
Society, 1998.
Seidensticker, John, Sarah Christie, and Peter Jackson. RIDING THE TIGER: TIGER
CONSERVATION IN HUMAN LANDSCAPES. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Singh, Billy Arjan. WATCHING INDIA'S WILDLIFE: THE ANTHOLOGY OF A LIFETIME.
Oxford University Press, 2002.
Thapar, Valmik. LAND OF THE TIGER: A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT.
University of California Press, 1998.
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