Kenneth Anderson Diaries: The Man-Eater of Jowlagiri
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- Kenneth Douglas Stewart Anderson (8 March 1910 - 30 August 1974), was a writer and hunter who went on several adventures in the jungles of south India and wrote books about his thrilling stories of hunting Man-eating Tigers and Leopards.This is my attempt to follow up on his adventures to try and find the places where those events took place.
During this trip i went on the trail of "The Man-Eater of Jowlagiri" from the book 9 man-eaters and 1 rogue, where kenneth followed up and shot a man-eating tigress, near a temple in sulekunta, close to Jowlagiri. During this adventure Kenneth had a close shave with the tigress and almost became a statistic himself of the tiger victim. Though he failed to bag the tigress at his first attempt, since she almost never touched the baits he had tied for her, he eventually was successful in bagging the Man-Eater in his second attempt near a temple at sulekunta. This is my attempt to try and locate the place where the incidents took place and try to eventually find the place where he shot the tigress. It was an adventure following up on this trail and I hope you can be part of my adventure.
Hats off to your Passion and Hard work Sir, in tracing the footsteps of these Historical mesmerising stories. You deserve a thunderous applause. Wish You all the very best for your future endeavours ........God Bless
Thanks a lot DrFaisal 🙏
Hi Sir, I went to Jowlagiri and had an opportunity to meet Muniappa, who had helped for KA shikar in and around Jawlagiri in 1990. Your continuous tired les efforts is a tremendous task. Thank you.
Good to know, Thanks 🙂....but maybe not the year 1990 since Kenneth passed away in 1974.
@@Shreyas.Ranganath Hi Sir, I met KA's hunting chokra ie assistant, Muniappa, who is residing at Jawlagiri. I had been stayed with him for three days at Jawlagiri. Thank you sir.
Ok, good to know, hope you explored around the forests.
Great insight... Needless to say, how adventurous the journey would have been covering the lost epic hunting story... Incredible work and research much appreciated your hard work....
Thanks a lot
Really appreciate your work and the passion to follow histories. Jowlagiri - what a beautiful landscape . I so glad to see the places mentioned in KA stories. Good work Sir.👍👍
Thanks a lot for the feedback Sir.🙂
Wonderful job Shreyas, , I love Kenneth Anderson hunting stories.
I read his book , I was browsing some audio books on TH-cam found yours very interesting.
Long ago before I migrated to Canada I visited his birth place in Bolrarum Secundrabad .
He was a great hunter back in the day.
I wish you all the best in future adventures.
Mazher Khan
Smithville ON
Canada
Thanks for making this video! I would love to see that exact spot where Anderson was nearly pounced on by the tiger. Hopefully you will get to visit the area some day and show us.
Thanks a lot 🙂🙏 i have a rough idea where that incident happened, and someday if possible (if i can get permission) i would love to visit the area and find out that. 🙂
I Love Kenneth Anderson and his stories
Today I went to Hoggenakkal through this route from bannerghata through some villages, avoiding the main routes.
Really appreciate your love for the forest and wildlife.Sheyas make videos on Emmedoddi man eater story.
Sure, will do it sometime, thanks....
Thank you so much for your efforts in making these videos.Your style of narration truly transcends your subscribers from their homes to these remote and scenic places
That's encouraging to know, Thanks 🙂🙏
Great adventure. Really appreciate your love for the forest and wildlife
Thanks 🙂
Always expecting you dear sir.... With love from kerala
Thanku sir🥰🥰
Thanks 🙂
Nice video Shreyas. & everything was so well explained by you.
Thanks 🙂
Pleasure😊
Great work.After reading the great thrillling story and now watching the place. Really appreciate your work.
Thank you 🙂🙏
Love your work. Thanks.
Thank you 🙂🙏
now i am reading this book first and then seeing ur videos.. Very nice.. Waiting for more adventures!! Its just like reading the harry potter book and then watching the movie!!!'
That's good to know thanks. 🙂 Do checkout the videos in this series.
Hi Shreyas: Admire your patience in trying to locate the temple where the tigress was shot. The map adds much color and substance to the adventure and you have superimposed the old with the new. Great idea. Kudos! Now waiting to savour the next adventure!!
Good to know Thanks 🙂🙏
Enjoyed this trip...I am a great fan of Kenneth. Always wanted to visit some of the places covered in his stories. Thanks a lot for your meticulous search and efforts
Thanks for watching 🙂
Your passion and hard work to reach the place where Kenneth shot the tigress is worth all the praise and appreciation.. 👏👏👏 please keep up the good work and best of luck🙏🙏👍👍
Thanks a lot for your encouraging feedback 🙂 such comments are very motivating to do better 🙏🙏
And do check out the others in this series so far Kenneth Anderson Diaries: th-cam.com/play/PLmvhAN9dvTbHo1foxG1WKyz0K7915t2YT.html
Excellent work, Shreyas. A friend of mine- Praveen Rajuladavi and I went to Jowalgiri to check on Kenneth Andersons adventure. We did go to Sulegunta and saw one of the temples that you have mentioned. However we came across some villagers-who were in their 70's- and these villagers told us that Sulegunta was a forest when they were young but the forests were also cut in the 70's to make room for fields.. Hence the place where you carried out your investigations and are fields today, were forests in the 60's.
We also havea Kenneth Anderson Facebook group in which many of these things are discussed.
Thanks Sir 🙂🙏 and right, I heard it from a local as well that the forests have been cut there and are now fields.....also good to know about your investigation 🙂
@@Shreyas.Ranganath -You are welcome... You can see plenty of our posts in the Facebook... We did many of these trips from2005-2015...But please keep up the good work
Thanks bro..you did a great job
Thanks
Really I admire your work. Plz keep going we will support you
Thanks a lot 🙂🙏
You have to provide information about forest inside also
Best suggestion to move in to the forest to know some what more about
Enjoyed this very much thankyou for this
That's good to know. Thanks 🙏
Nice.good aytempt
Thank you ...appreciate your efforts 👏👏
Thank you.
What an exhilarating experience it was to watch your vlog!!! Kudos to your efforts
Thanks 🙂🙏
Very very interesting 👍
Thank you.
Last when I viewed this video I did it casually.But this time I viewed it throughly With great degree of concentration.As I am familiar with territory I tell you,you have taken this video very well.You have explained it in minute details.When you go in search of An hunting incidence of 90 to 80 years it is difficult to pin point the exact location.Nevertheless you have almost identified the place.In seventies & eighties these forests were almost degraded.But thanks to awareness from locals & Tamil Nadu Forest Department they have restored these forests to its original position except wild animals.There use to be plenty of spotted deers during sixties.Kenneth did huntings in these region during late thirties & forties.Very rarely he did huntings in these region after fifties.It was great pleasure watching videos on Gummalapur,Jawalgiri & Black panther of Shivanapalli.Many Many thanks for posting these videos.👍👍🙏
Thanks a lot for watching in detail Sir and for the kind words of encouragement 🙂🙏 and yes, after such exploitation in the past, it's good that some of the forests are still left thanks to good conservation work.
Sure Sir, let's plan to meet at a hotel nearby for coffee if you are fine. Please message me on my Instagram - shreyasranganath, or share me your account and we can chat.
Interesting videos. Im also n big fan of kenneth anderson. Fascinating to see the areas where the man eaters operated. Are there still tigers and leopards in those areas?
Thank you 🙂 and even though the forest areas have reduced since what was there a hundred years ago, a good part of it still remains, and tigers are moving in to areas where they were wiped out. Leopards however are present in large numbers.
Brilliant job Shreyas... I loved the way you have understood and explained the map.
Thanks @solomon, good to know.
Good Work… keep it up
Thank you.
Sir was awaiting for loong thanks for uploading. I wish to meet you once sir 🙂
I was also making the route map from each and every stories of Kenneth Anderson.
Much appreciated..
Great efforts.
I think the forest department there must have the information.
Thanks 🙂
There was a well near to premises of temple the travellers and Kenneth drank water from there and they all slept inside the temple that night..
You are doing excellent job . You deserve lot more subscribers.
Thanks Atul Sharma.
It's really great how you methodically look for the places mentioned in the books. I wish you get some help from govt. officials to find out more details about these events. I'm sure that these were well documented by the forest dept.
Thanks Aritra for the feedback. And yes hopefully am planning to seek help from forest department when possible.
Omg bro.. really appreciate the information you have shared. I have read the books. It feels like travelling with you through the trails of K.A. Looking forward to see the rest of it..
Anurenj
Thanks a lot Anurenj.
We also love to see the places where jim corbeet hunt the maneaters
Good work brother
Thank you 🙏
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Great 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Wonderful you are extreme
His map looks shockingly similar to the map style of middle earth in lord of the rings. Wonder if he was influence by Tolkien at all
Good work. Just noticed your bike is white and Anderson has written about elephant’s aversion to white so be careful
Sure Sir, Thank you 🙂
Shreyas is back
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Sir ask to old man of village may be possible they kwn about KA incident?
Spoke to a few of them, and hence visited some places. But not many i met knew much.
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It seems jellimariyamma temple the actual one. Other blogs also confirm the same
As per what I found and tried to correlate with the book, jellimariyamma is not the temple. He shot the tiger in the village temple at shoolakunta, and I have given further reasons why I feel jellimariyamma is not the temple in the video. Btw, that's just my point of view only 🙂
Try to go insight where is the place of night terror
Would you make video of Kenneth Anderson house in Bangalore
Not sure, since it doesn't exist now....infact i heard it was brought down since 1986.
Do we require permission to enter jowalgiri reserve forest?
The road that goes through the forest, that doesn't need any permission. But to go anywhere else aside from the road that would not be allowed.
Mining was completely banned in Western Ghats after Veerappan carried out a landmine attack in MM Hills, in which 20+ civilians and cops killed and all the quarries were shut, now the industry is booming again in those regions which is a threat to Wildlife and Ghats itself.
Yes, mining in eco sensitive areas is a big threat, all around Bannerghatta national park also a lot of mines....and don't know how it's permitted....
@@Shreyas.Ranganath Politics permits!
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Go through Kallivalli blogspot .com of Jeevan bike rider from Kerala who went here in 90s.He has taken photos of tge village of Anchetty/Dry Gundalam river/ village of Jowlagiri and tamarind tree etc