Anthropocentric Eco-Judgement in Corbett's Man Eaters of Kumaon

Abstract

My study in Corbett's Man Eaters of Kumaon is to show the deteriorating environmental ethics due to the hunting motif undertaken by Corbett himself towards the wild lives, and to plea for the balanced and healthy environment. In quest of establishing anthropo-supremacy, he happens to be blind towards the animal rights. Wild lives are killed by Corbett in order to protect the rule of human beings forgetting the logic of organic whole. But he is oblivious towards the indirect self-suffering as the logic of organic whole supposes all the things into the same circle and are treated and located equally. Nature is an organic whole, in an intricate web with man, which Corbett totally discards here. By not assimilating the logic of nature, Corbett along with the villagers of Kumaoni region suffer themselves. Therefore, with the motif of anthropocentrism, and thereby exploiting on nature, Corbett eventually gets himself in destructive self together with the Kumaoni villagers.