As the sport that purportedly enhanced martial conditioning of the ‘dominant’ race, pig-sticking assumed critical importance for the survival of the British in India. When numerous local insecurities and large-scale anxieties threatened the empire, hunting pursuits involving the wily Indian pig, it was said, made soldiers out of boys; the attendant spectacles of masculinity aimed to exert symbolic dominance over the restive Indian masses. The sport also served as an avenue for upward mobility for the subaltern soldier attempting to upstage aristocratic hunting performances in England and India. While masculinity and symbolic governance have been analysed repeatedly in critiques of hunting, sportsmen's contributions to natural history have seen limited analyses. Here, I show that the local intricacies of pig-sticking motivated a superlative understanding of the Indian wild boar, a tricky, unpredictable customer with a vile temper, and a ready propensity to attack its pursuers. Pig-sticking entailed a multi-faceted immersion with both land and people, incorporating hybrid knowledge-making, shaped within the contact zone of indigenous and colonial encounter. Further, while agreeing with post-colonial critiques on sport and imperialism, I propose looking beyond colonial exceptionalism to situate big-game hunting within the larger scholarship on costly signalling and hunting for prestige among human societies.

作为一项据称增强了“优势”种族的武术条件的运动，pig猪对于印度人在印度的生存至关重要。据说，当无数的当地动荡和大规模的焦虑威胁着帝国时，有人追捕那头狡猾的印度猪，这使士兵们脱离了男孩。伴随着阳刚之气的眼镜旨在在平静的印度群众中发挥象征性的统治作用。这项运动还为试图提高英格兰和印度贵族狩猎表演的准士兵提供了向上移动的途径。尽管在狩猎评论中对男子气概和象征性统治进行了反复分析，但运动员对自然历史的贡献却受到了有限的分析。这里，我表明，当地的猪群错综复杂促使人们对印度野猪有了最高级的了解，他是一个脾气暴躁，脾气暴躁，脾气暴躁的不可预知的顾客，并且随时准备攻击追捕者。贴猪需要在土地和人类之间进行多方面的浸入，并结合了混合的知识，形成了土著和殖民地相遇的接触区域。此外，在同意后殖民主义对体育和帝国主义的批判的同时，我建议超越殖民地的例外主义，将大型狩猎活动置于较大的学术研究范围之内，以解决人类社会中昂贵的信号和狩猎声望。融合混合知识，形成在土著和殖民地相遇的接触区域内。此外，在同意后殖民主义对体育和帝国主义的批判的同时，我建议超越殖民地的例外主义，将大型狩猎活动置于较大的学术研究范围之内，以解决人类社会中昂贵的信号和狩猎声望。融合混合知识，形成在土著和殖民地相遇的接触区域内。此外，在同意后殖民主义对体育和帝国主义的批判的同时，我建议超越殖民地的例外主义，将大型狩猎活动置于较大的学术研究范围之内，以解决人类社会中昂贵的信号和狩猎声望。