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Scarier still was the walk to a market where she had to sort the family’s paperwork for a ration card, through a wooded area populated by nilgai deer, monkeys and python.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2016

An antelope, known in Hindi as nilgai, ambled ahead of us on the path; it had lost one of its horns, presumably in a neelgai version of a barroom brawl.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2011

The Army first introduced camels to the area in 1856, and starting in the 1940s the locals began importing other exotic animals--ibex and zebras, nilgai antelope from Pakistan and barasingh deer from India.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the 15 names of main septs of the Santāls, Besra, a hawk, Murmu nilgai, or stag, and Aind, eel, are also the names of Munda septs.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)

When the raibar saw the turn that things had taken he thought that he had better take advantage of it, so he asked for a good large nilgai.

From Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Bompas, Cecil Henry