Walter roper Lawrence mentions wild boar as delicacy for Sikhs!

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His book ‘the valley of Kashmir can be downloaded at

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.234537

on page 117 he writes the below

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Roper_Lawrence

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/18/outcry-as-wild-boars-reappear-in-kashmir-after-decades

Experts say the Indian wild boar was introduced in the Himalayan region of Kashmir by Maharaja Gulab Singh, a Dogra military general in the former Sikh empire who purchased the region from the colonial British rulers under the Treaty of Amritsar in 1846.

 

Walter Roper Lawrence, a British officer who served the empire, wrote in his 1895 book, The Valley of Kashmir, that wild boar meat is a “great delicacy for the Dogras and Sikhs”.

The region’s last Dogra ruler, Maharaja Hari Singh, emptied 10 villages in Dachigam, a dense forest on the outskirts of Srinagar, and turned it into an exclusive hunting reserve.

The wild boar was one of the many prizes up for grabs for the hunters, most of whom were Hari Singh’s guests. But with the end of Dogra rule in 1947 when the subcontinent gained independence from Britain, Kashmir, a Muslim-majority region, was divided between India and Pakistan, and the wild boar population started dwindling.