Question

the british are largely responsible for the extinction of tiger population in india".justify the statement with suitable arguments?

Answer 1

By not applying protective measures to stop the rapidly decreasingly numbers of the animal
By reducing  natural habitat of the tiger by increasing the agricultural land and cutting forests
besides they themselves practised hunting of animals as a recreation.

Answer 2

Hunting or Shikar tigers and other animals have been a part of the culture of nobility and the court. This culture was adopted by the Britishers and they practised hunting to a degree that many species became extinct. The British administrators often rewarded those who killed wild animals such as tigers and wolves, on the basis that they sat a peril to cultivators. The British government reserved some forests for this purpose and a British administrator George Yule himself killed four hundred tigers.

This is how the policies of Britishers towards tigers resulted in the extinction of tiger population in India.