Sport & Martial Arts
Modern polo from Manipur's sagol kangjei
codified 1859 (traditional game older)Meitei players of ManipurSilchar club (1859); Calcutta Polo Club (1862)Manipur
1859
British tea planters and officers adopted the Manipuri horseback game and turned it into modern polo.
- Dated
- 1859
- As scholars put it
- codified 1859 (traditional game older)
- Originator
- Meitei players of Manipur
- Source text
- Silchar club (1859); Calcutta Polo Club (1862)
- Region
- Manipur
- Discipline
- Sport & Martial Arts
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Verified-web
Meanwhile in the West
Spread to Britain in the 1860s and then worldwide.
Fair to say
The British codified the rules; Persian and Central Asian horse-ball games also existed.
Path to modern innovation
Polo is played internationally today.
Transmission
Learned from Manipuri players in Silchar, Assam.
References
- 1Wikipedia (Polo)
- 2Sahapedia
Further reading
Related
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