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Ball badminton. Ball badminton is a sport native to India. It is a racket sport game, played with a yellow ball made of wool, on a court of fixed dimensions (12 by 24 metres) divided by a net. The game was played as early as 1856 by the royal family in Tanjore, the capital of Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu, India.
Ganjifa. Various Ganjifa cards from Dashavatara set. Ganjifa, Ganjapa or Gânjaphâ, [ 1] is a card game and type of playing cards that are most associated with Persia and India. After Ganjifa cards fell out of use in Iran before the twentieth century, India became the last country to produce them. [ 2]
The National Sports Day in India is celebrated on 29 August, on the birth anniversary of hockey player Major Dhyan Chand. [ 1] This day marks the birthday of Major Dhyan Chand Singh, the hockey player who won gold medals in Olympics for India in the years 1928, 1932 and 1936. He scored 400 goals in his total career, from 1926 - 1949 (according ...
Video gaming in India is an emerging market since India is experiencing strong growth in online gaming, making it one of the top gaming markets in the world. Over the past few decades, the Indian gaming industry has gone from close to nonexistent in the 1990s to one of the top markets globally in the late 2010s.
Country or region. Indian subcontinent. Olympic. Demonstration sport: 1936. Kho kho is a traditional South Asian sport that dates to ancient India. [ 1][ 2] It is the second-most popular traditional tag game in the Indian subcontinent after kabaddi. [ 3] Kho kho is played on a rectangular court with a central lane connecting two poles which are ...
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World Hindi Day (10 January) Hindi Day ( Hindi: हिन्दी दिवस, romanized : hindī divas) is celebrated in India to commemorate the date 14 September 1949 on which a compromise was reached—during the drafting of the Constitution of India —on the languages that were to have official status in the Republic of India. [ 1][ 2 ...
Gillidanda. Two boys playing gillidanda on the ghats of the Ganga river in Varanasi, India. Gillidanda is an ancient sport originating from South Asia that is still widely played throughout South Asia. The sport is also found as far north as the Mediterranean and as far east as Southeast Asia. It was a precursor to cricket in South Asia.