How can a jungle be domestic, and a camp servant be a domestic servant? This article argues for a reconceptualisation of historical forests and jungles of India: spaces usually conceived of as wild and hostile in the popular imagination were also a domestic realm. Pushing the boundaries of traditional conceptualisations of both domestic and wild, I examine the lives of late nineteenth to early twentieth-century camp servants and colonial officers living and working in the central Indian hinterland. Building on my work on populations I have referred to as ‘subaltern shikaris’, typically ‘tribal’ employees in British big game hunting expeditions, and drawing from a vast literature left behind by European forest officers and big game hunters in central India, this article shows how servants and servitude were vital to establishing that jungle camps could indeed be quite domestic.

丛林怎么能当家仆，营地仆人怎么能当家仆？这篇文章主张重新定义印度的历史森林和丛林：在大众想象中通常被认为是狂野和敌对的空间也是一个家庭领域。我突破了传统的家养和野生概念的界限，考察了 19 世纪末到 20 世纪初在印度中部腹地生活和工作的营地仆人和殖民官员的生活。基于我对人口的研究，我称之为“subaltern shikaris”，通常是英国大型猎物狩猎探险中的“部落”雇员，并从欧洲森林官员和印度中部大型猎物猎人留下的大量文献中汲取灵感，