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.

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Khedda mentioned in The Elephant Database

1 articles about countries in the elephant database match the word Khedda.

India

2 locations holdings in the elephant database match the word Khedda.

A. J. W. Milroy, dealer in
Dacca Kheddas, dealer in Dhaka

6 elephants in the elephant database match the word Khedda

EM-M Dhananjaya born arrived 2013-11-00 at Dubare elephant camp (Aanekaadu) in India
EM-M Drona born ~1980 arrived at Mathigodu elephant Camp in India, from Nagarhole National Park, in India.
EM-F Ganga born 1998 arrived at Ramapura camp in India, from Ramapura camp, in India.
EM-F Gange born 1960 arrived at Sakrebyle elephant camp in India
EM-F Indira born 1935 arrived 1968-00-00 at Sakrebyle elephant camp in India, from Kakanakote forest, in India.
EM-F Merry born arrived 2018-04-21 at Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary (WLS camp) in India, from Mathigodu elephant Camp, in India.

Reference list Koehl, Dan, (2023). Khedda. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 September 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/index.php?id=20. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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Vikram Nanjappa, India

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Khedda in Mysore January 1971

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