This sports is actually broadcast in local cable sports channel many years back that how I learned of this sport, the elite level is very intense to watch!
Kabaddi does not date back to the Mahabharata. This is a very typical "sanskritized" (mythologized) narrative and makes no historical sense at all. Like Pehlwani, the game was (and still is) popular amongst the agricultural and pastoral tribes inhabiting the *plains* between the Indus tributaries i.e. the region of Punjab, nowadays mostly in Pakistan and a portion in India [including Haryana]). These agrarian-pastoral tribes (common to both sides) formed a bulk of the medieval armies of the Delhi Sultanates and the Mughals, these tribes were also typically the regional landowners/chiefs. The narrative that "kabaddi was passed down to the peoples by some superior Sanskrit-speaking 'kshatriya' aristocracy class descended from some magical Hindu rishi via Pandava brothers" is completely ahistorical, yet typical if you expose yourself to modern-day Indian 'historians' on a regular basis - the Pandeys, Mishras, Sharmas, Malhotras, and the rest of that windbagging priestly ilk whose modern-day job titles are not worth the piece of paper they are printed on. The peoples that play the game actually settled the lands of Punjab after the 12th century (i.e. *after* the Ghaznavid conquest) when the Indus tributaries were mostly forested lands. Medieval and pre-modern records show the expansion of these tribes from the fertile plains of Punjab into the fertile plains of western UP by the 16th century as they sedantrize. You can actually trace the continuity of these peoples through Indo-Persianate court records. Those regions are still the "epicentre" of games like Kabaddi and Pehlwani. Funnily enough, the conundrum is that traditionally these same peoples are recorded as 'mlechas' (barbarians) on the outskirts of the 'Aryan' civilisation in pre-12th-century texts. Over time, some of them, particularly in south-eastern Punjab and western UP, adopt a more 'Hindu' identity through patronage relationship with Brahmin priests. Thus, controlling historical narratives, even around seemingly minor issues like history of games, becomes a political imperative to re-adjust the history of the peoples for the modern-day "Hindu India" project.
Why every thing about this kabadi looks wrong... Completely wrong history... Wrong rules specially multiple defenders stopping a raider which is foul only the touched one can stop the raider plus the cross line is just the 20% of the center of middle of field....
This sports is actually broadcast in local cable sports channel many years back that how I learned of this sport, the elite level is very intense to watch!
Sir i join the kabaddi acedmy in Singapore but location not in academy
This sounds like a game I will like man
Wow 😳 Good raid
Jonathan should join pro wrestling since he has the perfect figure and strength.
Kabaddi does not date back to the Mahabharata. This is a very typical "sanskritized" (mythologized) narrative and makes no historical sense at all.
Like Pehlwani, the game was (and still is) popular amongst the agricultural and pastoral tribes inhabiting the *plains* between the Indus tributaries i.e. the region of Punjab, nowadays mostly in Pakistan and a portion in India [including Haryana]). These agrarian-pastoral tribes (common to both sides) formed a bulk of the medieval armies of the Delhi Sultanates and the Mughals, these tribes were also typically the regional landowners/chiefs. The narrative that "kabaddi was passed down to the peoples by some superior Sanskrit-speaking 'kshatriya' aristocracy class descended from some magical Hindu rishi via Pandava brothers" is completely ahistorical, yet typical if you expose yourself to modern-day Indian 'historians' on a regular basis - the Pandeys, Mishras, Sharmas, Malhotras, and the rest of that windbagging priestly ilk whose modern-day job titles are not worth the piece of paper they are printed on.
The peoples that play the game actually settled the lands of Punjab after the 12th century (i.e. *after* the Ghaznavid conquest) when the Indus tributaries were mostly forested lands. Medieval and pre-modern records show the expansion of these tribes from the fertile plains of Punjab into the fertile plains of western UP by the 16th century as they sedantrize. You can actually trace the continuity of these peoples through Indo-Persianate court records. Those regions are still the "epicentre" of games like Kabaddi and Pehlwani.
Funnily enough, the conundrum is that traditionally these same peoples are recorded as 'mlechas' (barbarians) on the outskirts of the 'Aryan' civilisation in pre-12th-century texts. Over time, some of them, particularly in south-eastern Punjab and western UP, adopt a more 'Hindu' identity through patronage relationship with Brahmin priests. Thus, controlling historical narratives, even around seemingly minor issues like history of games, becomes a political imperative to re-adjust the history of the peoples for the modern-day "Hindu India" project.
Yawn....kabbadi is Indian...bottom line...Aryan Dravidian is a topic for another time....
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is that Selangor Padang they are playing Kabbadi or is it somewhere in Singapore?
Singapore. It also happen to call Padang over here. Left over from British colony Era. See what you did with your nick there lol
Why every thing about this kabadi looks wrong... Completely wrong history... Wrong rules specially multiple defenders stopping a raider which is foul only the touched one can stop the raider plus the cross line is just the 20% of the center of middle of field....