Local farmers are largely responsible for this situation because they either kill the animals the tigers eat or farm in their habitats. Tiger ranges are becoming smaller due to human expansion. This inevitably results in tigers coming into contact with humans. Therefore more opportunities arise for tigers to make chance attacks on those people. They may also attack a person if they are taken by surprise or if defending their cubs.
Tigers are responsible for more human deaths than any other big cat.
Usually, the tiger will only kill a human if there is daylight and they have strayed into its hunting ground. It is very unusual for a tiger to enter a human settlement because of their natural fear of humans. India kept a record in the early 1900's to show how common man-eaters were. It was also discovered that once a tiger had eaten human flesh it wouldn't hesitate to eat it again. Before she was shot by Jim Corbett, she had killed an estimated 436 people.