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Jim Corbett

1875 - 1955

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Edward James Corbett (25 July 1875 – 19 April 1955) was an Anglo-Indian hunter, tracker, naturalist and author. He was frequently called upon by the Government of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh to kill man-eating tigers and leopards that were attacking people in the nearby villages of the Kumaon and Garhwal Divisions. He recounted his hunts and experiences in books like Man-Eaters of Kumaon, which enjoyed critical acclaim and commercial success. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jim Corbett has received more than 2,390,466 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Jim Corbett is the 2,657th most popular writer (down from 2,380th in 2019), the 341st most popular biography from India (down from 280th in 2019) and the 49th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 34

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Notable Works

The illustrated lives in the wilderness
Social life and customs, Ethnology, Ornithologists
2009
Tree Tops
1955
Man-eaters of Kumaon
Tiger hunting
1945
My India
Social life and customs, Description and travel, Rural poor
1952
The man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag
Hunting, Leopard, Leopards
1948

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jim Corbett ranks 2,657 out of 7,302. Before him are Alda Merini, Àngel Guimerà, Mirra Alfassa, Stanko Vraz, Polemon I of Pontus, and William Goldman. After him are Hans Hellmut Kirst, Valentin Rasputin, Béla Király, Gustav Schwab, Michael Cunningham, and Petrus Comestor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Jim Corbett ranks 78. Before him are Eusebio Ayala, Alfred P. Sloan, Charles D. B. King, Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach, Svetozar Pribićević, and Princess Louise of Denmark. After him are Carl Milles, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Marie Marvingt, Ricardo Viñes, Vesto Slipher, and Max Abraham. Among people deceased in 1955, Jim Corbett ranks 75. Before him are Robert W. Wood, Léon Werth, Isak Samokovlija, Holger Nielsen, Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and Arthur Tansley. After him are Jirō Minami, Horace McCoy, Carl Milles, Ona Munson, Louis Charles Breguet, and Hubert Cecil Booth.

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In India

Among people born in India, Jim Corbett ranks 341 out of 1,861. Before him are Rakesh Sharma (1949), Anish Kapoor (1954), Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948), and Wilfred Bion (1897). After him are Sanjay Gandhi (1946), Pulakeshin II (610), Guru Hargobind (1595), Bhavabhuti (null), Dadasaheb Phalke (1870), and Lindsay Anderson (1923).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Jim Corbett ranks 49. Before him are Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908), Shakuntala Devi (1929), Rahul Sankrityayan (1893), Jaggi Vasudev (1957), M. Karunanidhi (1924), and T. H. White (1906). After him are Bhavabhuti (null), Zeb-un-Nissa (1638), U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932), Ram Prasad Bismil (1897), Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (1911), and K. Shivaram Karanth (1902).

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