Health benefits of Manipuri polo health benefits
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Born in obscurity, spotted by civilization, Polo became a World sports by proxy. Though this majestic game had always been an integral part of the Manipuri ethos, it was the Britishers who actually gave it a place under the sun.
The dawn of 18th century saw historic cultural interaction between the ever expanding British Empire and the slit eyed Mongoloid race of the landlocked Manipur. The Surma Valley became the meeting ground of the two cultures. After their devastating war with the Burmese, the Manipuri princes, Chourajit, Marjit, Gambhir Singh and Nar Singh were staying at Cachar. Incidentally, under the aggressive rule of the British Empire, Cachar became a frontier territory of the colonial British India. There, in the lush green plains of Cachar, the Britishers saw the Manipuri princes, with their ever present retinues, either practising at one time the battle exercises on horse back with swinging dart of Arambais or at other times playing a strange game of hockey on horse back, swinging a mallet with equal gusto. Strange was the habit of the Manipuris who never left their little ponies either in war or in peace. In their war cry, the Britishers saw a formidable ally in the Manipuris and signed the treaty of alliance with Gambhir Singh and formed the famous Manipur Levy.
In the strange game of hockey on horse back, the Britishers equally saw the potential of a latent sporting possibility. They saw, they learnt and the first Polo Club of the world was born at Cachar in 1859. When the Marques of Ripon said "it is a small State (Manipur), probably until these events took place very little known to your Lordships, unless, indeed, some of you may have heard of it as the birth place of the Game of Polo," during the house of Lords of debate on Jubraj Tikendrajit's trial on 22nd June 1891, he paid a glowing tribute to the Manipuri pioneers of polo.
The Guinness Book of Records in its 1991 edition on page 288 writes "Polo: Origins: Origins of Polo can be traced to origins in Manipur State c. 3100 B.C. when it was played as Sagol Kangjei". The earliest club was the Cachar Club founded in 1859 in Assam, India. The oldest Polo Club in the world still in existence is the Calcutta Polo Club (1862). The game was introduced in England from India in 1869 by the 10th Hussars at Aldershot, Hants and the earliest match was the one between the 9th Lancers and the 10th Hussars at Hounslow Health, Greater London in July, 1871. The earliest international match between England and the USA was in 1886. The game's governing body is the Hurligham Polo Association, which drew up the first English rules in 1875.
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