Historical and Cultural Context of Indigenous Sports

The history of indigenous sports in India is believed to be 8000 years old, from the time of Indus Valley civilization. Indians were one of the most modern and developed civilizations in the ancient period.

  • Around 975 BCE, the love for chariot-racing and wrestling was common in both in India and Greece, where the Olympics was first introduced.
  • During Vedic India, ‘dehvada’ or the body-way was defined as “one of the ways to full realization”. In times of Rig-Veda, Ramayana, and Mahabharata, the men of stature and circumstance got competent with each other in chariot-racing, archery, horsemanship, military tactics, wrestling, weight-lifting, swimming ....
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