A Passage from India, Featuring Four Elephants and Their Mahouts

A Passage from India, Featuring Four Elephants and Their Mahouts

An elephant from India being hoisted from ship to ship. The secret history of the Asian elephants that Belgium’s Leopold II dispatched to Africa in service of his ruthless colonial vision By Sophy Roberts The well-known story of King Leopold II of Belgium’s violent theft of what’s now the Democratic Republic of the Congo is told by Adam Hochschild in his seminal 1998 book, King Leopold’s Ghost. But there’s another, lesser-known narrative, a foot…