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Khedda
Definition of Khedda
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Keddha or Kheddah Shikar, is a method of capturing wild elephants, where stockades will be allowed to be built in strategic locations and where
Herds
of wild elephants can be driven into and trapped in such stockades.
The system was further developed by G.P. Sanderson, who made his successful attempts in 1874. Sanderson was in charge of the Kheddah department of the British government of India at Dhaka and Mysore, and he captured hundreds of elephants in south and northeast India.
(Sanderson, 1878, Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India)
Hermann Wiele, who delivered many animals to Firma
Carl Hagenbeck
, writes in his book about a Keddha in Karapura, Mysore, Karnataka, honored to the Vice Prince of India, where 82 elephants were caught. Some of those elephants were imported to Firma Hagenbeck, through
John Hagenbeck
.
(Page 131-140,
Hermann Wiele
, 1925, Fur Hagenbeck im Himalaja und den Urwaldern Indiens.)
A total of 36 Kheddas were conducted in Kakankote Khedda of Mysore until the last one in 1970–71, when 47 elephants were captured.
Reference list
Koehl, Dan, (2024).
Khedda
. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 September 2021 at
https://www.elephant.se/index.php?id=20
. (
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)
Sources used for this article is among others:
Vikram Nanjappa, India
Selected publications
Khedda in Mysore January 1971
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khedda
https://medium.com/@nsvinodh/capturing-elephants-khedda-491ca6c363fe
https://karnatakahistory.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-mysore-khedda.html?view=classic
https://web.archive.org/web/20170124191731/http://www.neportal.org/northeastfiles/Assam/ActsOrdinances/The_Wildlife_(Protection)_Rules_1980.asp
https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/southasianpams_aspace_ref6620_hxv
https://www.natureinfocus.in/environment/kabini-s-history-of-khedda-elephant-capture
https://nanjappavikram.medium.com/a-brief-history-of-elephant-capture-and-the-methods-employed-f8a9698c9297
British VIPs never missed Khedda operations
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mysuru/british-vips-never-missed-khedda-operations/articleshow/8817792.cms
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