Khedda: acceptable training practice or the obtaining of dominance by cruelty? Either way, the trapping and taming of wild elephants using already tamed elephants fascinated W H Buckley, a member of the Buckley's Brewery (Llanelli) family who was stationed with the 5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, a calvalry regiment, in Bengaluru (Bangalore), Karnataka state (Mysore) in the late 1920s and who was amongst a crowd of spectators watching part of the process.