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SPORTS IN INDIA---PRESENTED BY----DIPTADEEP KARMAKAR
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What is sports?
Sport is generally recognized asactivities which are based in physicalathleticism.
Sports are usually governed by a setof rules or customs, which serve toensure fair competition, and allow
consistent adjudication of the winner.
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SPORTS IN ANCIENT INDIA NAD
MODERN INDIA
Before IndependenceIn the vedic era :
In early India, gamesand sports were verymuch concerned about
the development of thephysique and for theart of offence anddefence.The guru-shishya (teacher-pupil)relationship has alwaysbeen an integral partof Indian sport fromtime immemorial.Indian sport reached a
peak of excellencewhen Buddhism heldsway here.
After IndependenceAfter the IX Asian Games inNew Delhi in 1982, thecapital city now has modernsports facilities.India has hosted or co-hosted
several international sportingevents, such as the 1951 andthe 1982 Asian Games, the1987 and 1996 Cricket WorldCup, the 2003 Afro-AsianGames, the 2010 HockeyWorld Cup and the 2010
Commonwealth GamesThe country hosted the 2011Cricket World Cup and thefirst Indian Grand Prix in2011.
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SOME IMAGES OF
SPORTS IN INDIA
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POPULAR SPORTS IN INDIAPopular sports in India include cricket, fieldhockey, football, tennis, basketball, chess,volleyball, badminton and golf.
Our national sport is field hockey
In India, cricket has made its own name ofitself
A wide variety of sports is played throughoutthe country. These include kabbadi, kho kho,pehlwani and gilli-danda. British rule broughtmany popular sports in India includingfootball, rugby union, cricket, golf, tennis,squash, hockey, boxing, snooker, andbilliards
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HOCKEY
Field hockey is the official nationalsport in India.Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) was
formed on the 7th November, 1925at Gwalior.In Olympics, India has won thehockey title a maximum of 8 times.
The first World Cup Hockey wasplayed in Barcelona in 1971.In India, Dhyan Chand has rated asbest hockey player of all times.
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FOOTBALL
Football is one of India's most popular sports, next tocricket .Traditionally it has enjoyed popularity in the states WestBengal, Goa, Kerala and the entire North-East India,especially Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Sikkim.Today India's top domestic league, the I-League, is one ofthe most popular sports league in the India, and is home tosome of India's most famous football clubs like East bengal,Mohan Bagan, Salgaocar, and Dempo
Santosh Trophy is an annual Indian football tournamentwhich is contested by states , Bengal has won 31 times.
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CRICKET
In India Cricket was introduced byBritish royalty. Parsee community ofIndia was the first to take part inCricket in 1848.Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (INDIA),the youngest ever test captain, and avery fine batsman played for a long
time with a glass eye.The India national cricket team wonthe 1983 Cricket World Cup, the2007 ICC World Twenty20, 2011
Cricket World Cup.
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Traditional and regional sports
Gilli-dandaYoung boys playing Gilli-danda, a traditional Indian sport.Gilli-danda is a sport played by using one small stick (gilli) and a largestick (danda) like cricket with ball being replaced by gilli. It is still playedin villages of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, andMaharashtra states of India only as a recreational sport among boys.
KanchaKancha is played by using marbles, popular in cities as well as villages bysmall boys only as a gully sport. The winner gets the kancha of otherboys.
Kite flyingKite flying is played by many people in India in cities as well as villages.The festival of Makar Sankranti is marked with competitions of this sport.
Other popular regional sportsIndian martial artsOther regional sports and games namely air sports, atya patya, bridge,carrom, cycle polo, fencing, gymnastics, judo, karate, Gatka, kho-kho,mallakhamb, roller skating, rowing, shooting ball, soft tennis, squash,swimming, taekwondo, ten-pin bowling, tennikoit, tug of war, and
yachting have dedicated following and their own national sportsfederations.
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India at Olympics