DISTINGUISHED HOCKEY PERSONALITIES AT KILA RAIPUR RURAL SPORTS FESTIVAL
Abstract
Kila Raipur; a village of Ludhiana district in Punjab is well known for its rural sports festival called ‘Rural Olympics’. Purpose of the present study was to explore the salient features of this famous rural sports festival that has its origin in pre independence era. Grewals of this village has played a significant role to organize this sports festival successfully since its inception. Grewals are the descendents of Chandel Rajputs; the ruler of Budhel Khand, and comes in most educated classes among the Jatts of Punjab. In July 1934, the first sports meet was organized including volleyball, Kabaddi and a few athletic events. Information for this study was collected from primary and secondary sources. In the beginning only local players took part in different events, but now it has become the competition arena of many national and international players including Olympians. Many eminent Hockey personalities have participated here including Dhayan Chand, Dharam Singh, Prithipal Singh, Ajitpal Singh, Pargat Singh and many more. Kila Raipur is the only rural sports festival where 33 hockey Olympians have participated.
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