About 150 years ago, there were approximately one lakh tigers in India. A good area of India was a forest area and human security was not maintained. So the tiger was a notorious animal at the time.
The worst time for a forest tiger was from 1911 to 1915. The British rulers and Raja Maharaja, who considered hunting as a timepass, killed 9000 tigers and 27000 leopards in India at that time.
The most dangerous was that when King George V came to fill the Delhi court in 1911, he killed 39 tigers in just 10 days.
In Rewa, a native state of India, it was customary to hunt 109 tigers for auspicious occasions after the coronation of a new heir.
There are many cases not just one or two, of killing tigers for hobby. The result was that by the time India independent , the number of tigers was 40,000 instead of millions.
Hunting continued even after that, and as late as 1969, the Tiger Conservation Act was enacted and Project Tiger's program began.
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