Who Shot the Tiger? Performing Imperialism in India
Monday, 8 a.m. – Sunday, 5 p.m.
Event Info
Who Shot the Tiger? Performing Imperialism in India
Oct. 14, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Sterling Memorial Library, Exhibition Corridor
120 High Street
New Haven, CT
06511

“Who Shot the Tiger?: Performing Imperialism in India” explores how tiger hunts recur in 19th-British visual culture. Appropriated from Indian courtly tradition, colonial depiction of tiger hunts enforced British imperial power. Tracing the emergence of this motif into the English cultural consciousness, questions of the archive’s complicity in imperialism arise. The violence is perpetuated by materials held in Yale’s collections. Radical reimagination is urgent for these endangered animals. Who will look and change these tigers before it is too late? Curated by Catherine Kausikan ’25
Open To:
General Public