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The
Kabaddi game is the oldest game as
sour Indian culture. The origin of
team pursuit game is lost in gauzy
mists of time, but there is evidence
the Kabaddi is about 4,000 years old
and some claim that lord Krishna
enjoyed playing Kabaddi. Kabaddi is
one of the ancient forms of outdoor
sports, and its origin can be traced
to prehistoric times when man
pitched himself against predatory
beasts in a fight for food, before
the advent of weapons. It was
primarily invented for developing
self defence, responses to attack
and reflexes of counter attack by
individuals and by group or teams.
The Indian epic, Mahabharat
describes a battle between the
warrior Abhimanyu of the Pandavas,
with the seven Kauravas, inside the
enemy camp. He managed to penetrate
their seven tiered defence, but died
because he did not know the way out.
Kabaddi aims to develop the skills
of self defence, attack as well as
survival. |
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Kabaddi was introduced in the India
Olympic games at Calcutta in 1952.
An All India Kabaddi Federation came
into existence during 1952 and the
first president was Shri L.K.
Godbole. New rules were framed in
1953 by Shri Thube, general
secretary of Kabaddi Federation of
India, National Kabaddi Championship
for men section was held at Nagpur
in 1953 and in the championship
first time a women section
demonstration match was played and
since 1955 national Kabaddi
championship of women section was
also organised alongwith the men
section. Efforts were made to
demonstrate the game in the world
youth festival held at Moscow in
1957 by unfortunate due to various
reasons this could not be
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