ABSTRACT
Curzon was the son of a baron and Eton- and Oxford-educated. The Burma Game Preserve Association approached Curzon to speak to them when he was on a state visit to the country in his capacity as Indian viceroy. In particular, Curzon’s interest in conservation initiated the process that created the Kaziranga Reserve Forest, now a World Heritage Site. Curzon also voiced concerns about urban pollution in India, which are highlighted later in this part of the volume. The general sense that Britain’s imperial elite were sounding alarm bells about resource depletion at the end of the nineteenth century is very much apparent in Curzon’s address. There are some persons who doubt or dispute the progressive diminution of wild life in India. Finally, many beautiful and innocent varieties of birds are pursued for the sake of their plumage, which is required to minister to the heedless vanity of European fashion.
