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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.
Thoda (archery) Thoda is an Indian form of archery found in Himachal Pradesh, with elements of dance and music included. [1] It is generally performed during various local festivals alongside other traditional games, [2] and may be a symbolic representation of the war described in the Mahabharata. [3] [4] The aim of Thoda is for two opposing ...
In Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi, she won gold medal in women's team recurve with Deepika Kumari. Rajat Chauhan is the first Indian archer to win a silver medal in men's individual compound event in World Archery Championships. He achieved this feat at 2015 World Archery Championships.
A variety of ball games and war-training activities were present in ancient India, [7][8][9] with both men and women participating. [5] The traditional Indian physical culture generally used little to no equipment. [10] Ayurvedic medical treatises such as the Charaka Samhita and the Sushruta Samhita emphasized exercise as a way of avoiding ...
Archery is the national sport of the Kingdom of Bhutan. [95] From the 1920s, professional engineers took an interest in archery, previously the exclusive field of traditional craft experts. [96] They led the commercial development of new forms of bow including the modern recurve and compound bow.
Archery Association of India is the national governing body of archery in India.Its headquarters are located in New Delhi, and its current president is Arjun Munda, AAI is a non-profit, government funded organisation affiliated by World Archery Federation, Asian Archery Federation, Indian Olympic Association and recognized by Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports of India.
Mukkha is an archery sport. The game is played with a long arrow (ghashay) and a long bow (leenda). The arrow has a saucer shaped metallic plate (tubray) at its distal end. The archers play in teams and attempt to hit a small white wooden target called takai surrounded by a circular ring called kwaara. The target is secured in fresh clay placed ...
Indian martial arts. Indian martial arts refers to the fighting systems of the Indian subcontinent. A variety of terms are used for the English phrases "Indian martial arts", deriving from ancient sources. While they may seem to imply specific disciplines (e.g. archery, armed combat), by Classical times they were used generically for all ...