Asian Elephants in Central India: A detailed history (From the Earliest Times to 1947)

Raza Kazmi

Elephants were widely distributed across the length and breadth of the present-day states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and parts of Gujarat and Maharashtra right from the ancient period until the late medieval period. There is irrefutable historical evidence of elephants existing across the western and southern borders of Madhya Pradesh, and into eastern Gujarat and northern Maharashtra, right until the mid-17th century...