# Talk:Jim Corbett

Doesn't the last part about the Hindi Translation sound too much like a commercial for the book and the writer? Surely this is not Encyclopedic!! User:PureR (talk) 22:43, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

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Ths article is deffinitely not up to Wikipedia standards. Almost nothing is cited. In addition, there are subjective claims in it such as "Corbett was a man of integrity and a person with great character." There are also highly dubious claims that sound like folk tale legend rather than actual fact, such as "An excellent hunter with keen senses, Corbett sometimes stalked to within twenty feet of his prey." That seems extordinarily unlikely unless said prey was blind, deaf, and had no sense of smell.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.199.8.148 (talk) 23:51, 9 August 2009 (UTC) 

He is Indian born to Irish parents living in India  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.172.28.118 (talk) 06:40, 20 November 2012 (UTC) 
He is Irish, born in Naini Tal.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.178.40.200 (talk) 03:53, 18 May 2008 (UTC) 
He should be either hunter or Conservationist.One cannot be both at once. Ishanaba (talk) 10:15, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Read the text more carefully, and you will learn that he wasn't both at once, but a hunter turned conservationist, like quite a few others were too. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 16:28, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
he killed bachelor of powalgarh in 1930 , when he was 55 years of age. this tiger was reported to be quite big , so many hunters tried to kill it to bag trophy. it proves basically he was a hunter. so dont led people into believing he only killed maneating tigers and leopards. there is no data how many tigers and leopards (who are normal, not man-eaters) jim had killed for a game.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by RaviSBohra (talk • contribs) 02:53, 28 November 2012 (UTC) 
Jim Corbett rarely ever killed a tiger or a leopard that wasn't a man-eater. The Bachelor was a very rare exception and Corbett later regretted killing him. STCooper1(68.19.146.93 (talk) 05:00, 29 January 2013 (UTC))
Yes, the main page says that Jim Corbett never killed a tiger that wasn't man-eater, while reading his book "Jim Corbett's India" by R.E Hawkins, the chapter "Chowgarh Tigers" mentioned that he made a mistake and killed non-confirmed man-eater tiger (male mate) of a man-eating tigress.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.181.146.3 (talk) 19:14, 2 July 2014 (UTC) 

There's considerable difference in the year cited for Corbett killing the Champawat Tiger (tigress).  They vary from 1907 to 1911 to 1926.  I'm told that his memoir, 'Maneaters of Kumaon', only states that he killed the Champawat cat four years after a bounty was established.
This site seems as good as any, stating that he slew nearly a dozen maneaters between 1907 and 1938, the Champawat being the first.
http://www.ofcats.com/2007/06/jim-corbett.html
Anybody have more definite information?
B Tillman 1-24-09  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Btillman (talk • contribs) 21:30, 25 January 2009 (UTC) 
Champawat tigress was killed in 1907, there is a photo of metal plate bearing the year 1907 in the gun awarded to jim by the then governor of united province.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by RaviSBohra (talk • contribs) 12:26, 9 December 2012 (UTC) 

The photo of Jim Corbett and the slain tiger in this article is a slightly different version of the photo used in Champawat_Tiger. In the Jim Corbett article, the tiger is captioned as the "Bachelor of Powalgarh", however in the Champawat Tiger article, it is captioned as the Champawat Tiger. So it appears that at least one of the photos is mislabeled.
This topic was already raised by another user at Talk:Champawat_Tiger#Picture_of_the_tiger; I am cross-posting here to solicit more attention to the matter. --Burpen (talk) 17:32, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

The page on tigers of chowgarh is mainly about Jim Corbett and how he hunted them, not the tigers themselves. It's basically a summary of the section of his book that deals with those tigers so i think it would be appropriate to merge it into Jim Corbett#Hunting man-eating tigers and leopards. WikiWisePowder (talk) 20:28, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

I would completely agree with the merge proposal. If there are any other tiger hunt summaries of a similar nature, they too should be merged here. Shyamal (talk) 11:52, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
@Shyamal: There are, but I think it's best to discuss them one at a time. Each article is different and mass discussions tend to get stuck. WikiWisePowder (talk) 13:41, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Can anyone point to a source that provides a definitive number? 2001:8F8:1623:4EBA:216F:8CE2:6332:9978 (talk) 09:41, 21 May 2020 (UTC) R.E.D.

It says he is anglo-indian, but his ancestry does not seem to include anyone of Indian descent. Since anglo-indian means people of mixed British and Indian descent, this seems like a mistake. 217.180.192.140 (talk) 02:32, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Exactly. He's of Anglo-Irish descent. I suggest an immediate correction ShandilyaPutra (talk) 05:26, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
See article 366(2) of the Indian constitution for the official definition of "Anglo-Indian": "a person whose father or any of whose other male progenitors in the male line is or was of European descent but who is domiciled within the territory of India and is or was born within such territory of parents habitually resident therein and not established there for temporary purposes only". ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 09:27, 7 August 2025 (UTC)