Abstract

This article examines the relationship between imperial hunting and the sublime through the historical analysis of race, caste, and aesthetics in the Central Himalayas. Reading Raja Rudra Deva's sixteenth-century Śyainika Śāstra against the career of nineteenth-century timber merchant Frederick Wilson, it argues that the bodies of the courtly hawker and the imperial sportsman simultaneously articulated and naturalized hierarchies of caste and race in the Central Himalayas. In the precolonial context, dramatic displays of hawking calibrated caste status but did not codify boundaries between ''nature'' and ''culture.'' In contrast, the aesthetics of the sublime were deployed in English hunting journals to demarcate racial difference and legitimate colonial rule in the Central Himalayas. The aesthetics of courtly hawking and imperial sportsmanship were thus consequential to the elaboration of race and caste-based forms of authority over the Himalayan environment.

中文翻译：

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帝国狩猎和崇高：中部喜马拉雅山脉的种族，种姓和美学

摘要

本文通过对喜马拉雅中部地区种族，种姓和美学的历史分析，考察了帝国狩猎与崇高之间的关系。读拉贾·鲁德拉·德瓦（Raja Rudra Deva）的16世纪ŚyainikaŚāstra反对19世纪木材商人弗雷德里克·威尔逊（Frederick Wilson）的职业生涯，它认为，有礼貌的小贩和帝国运动员的尸体同时在喜马拉雅中部阐明和归化了种姓和种族等级制度。在前殖民时代的背景下，小贩的戏剧化展示了经过校准的种姓地位，但没有整理出“自然”与“文化”之间的界限。相比之下，崇高的美学在英国狩猎杂志中被采用，以区分种族差异和合法地位。在喜马拉雅山中部的殖民统治。因此，有礼貌的贩卖和帝国体育精神的美学意义在于对种族和基于种姓的权威形式在喜马拉雅环境中的阐述。