Games of Manipur

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Games are played as pleasure, to ensure better physique to participants and of course for entertainment. Various games were developed round the globe which varied up to certain proportion depending on environmental and social situations. Manipur is a tiny land situated at North Eastern corner of India which was subject to influence from various streams of human races thus formed an unique culture. It has influence on their games and sports too. The book deals with traditional games of Manipur. Since the games were developed during various periods of history they have historical perspective. Therefore history of Manipur has been discussed as introduction. If Manipur is taken from various races, it is also given too. The game of polo originated in Manipur which has been globalised. Contribution of Manipur in modern game is also discussed in brief. It is expected that the book shall be of great help to Scholars, Social Scientists and planners so that these games may be globalised to give us a happy world.

He is a graduate in Chemical Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Rourkella. After graduation served number of organizations like Hindustan Lever Ltd., I. B. P Co. Ltd., Konark Detergents and Soaps Ltd., and finally joined Khadi & Village Industries Commission as Director in the year 1982 retiring as Joint Chief Executive Officer in the year 2008. After retirement he was made member and chairman respectively of two important committees of Ministry of Science & Technology. He is also working with two rural based groups to develop environment friendly rural industrialization. He had presented more than 40 papers in Anthropology in various sessions of Indian Science Congress. More than 80 articles in various subjects written in English, Hindi, Bengali and Oriya were published in various journals and news papers of repute. He had authored more than 50 books out of which 48 were published. The subjects ranged from Disaster Management, Anthropology, Environmental Issues, Renewable Energy, Ayurved etc. He is well traveled man and traveled all Indian States and most of the European countries. He was trained in Industrial Cluster from International Labor Organization Training center at Turin, Italy.

Manipur is a land of beauty and talent. Author visited many time and for more than a year he even resided. Every time he visited the land and the people enchanted him. His first visit was sometime early 1984 and there after there were many. The craft, the herbal system, the games and acrobatics all enchanted him.

The ancient name of the land was Meithei Leipak or the land of Meitheis or Sna Leipak or golden land. Even in ancient Indian scriptures it was mentioned as Subarna Bhu or golden land.

The state is known now for wrong reasons. But right background was hardly highlighted. Very rarely it is known that the Game of Polo was invented in Manipur and was officially adopted by the British Army during 1911. In fact the game of hockey and rugby existed in Manipur since ancient days. Today even in case of modern games like soccer or hockey or weight lifting or gymnastics it is the people of Manipur that keep India's flag high in International arena.

Author is thankful to his friends from Manipur like H. Manikumar, late L. Saratchandra, late Th. Kulachandra and the wonderful couple L. Anand and Premtala for providing references and information otherwise it would not have been possible for the author to complete the book.

Author hopes the state will be known for right reason in future.