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India has several traditional games and sports, [1] some of which have been played for thousands of years. [2] [3] [4] Their popularity has greatly declined in the modern era, with Western sports having overtaken them during the British Raj, [5] and the Indian government now making some efforts to revive them.
Seven stones game Kids playing Lagori in a Bangalore street. Seven stones (also known by various other names) is a traditional game from the Indian subcontinent involving a ball and a pile of flat stones, generally played between two teams in a large outdoor area.
This category is for games originating in India, not those associated with the indigenous peoples of the Americas (sometimes referred to as "American Indians"). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Games of India .
The indie game scene in India has been growing recently as more studios develop games that draw on Indian history and culture. In 2009, Desi Adda: Games of India was released, showcasing the traditional games of India. [27] Asura, a PC game created in 2017 by Ogre Head Studio, draws on aspects of Indian mythology. [28]
The modern game of badminton developed from an English children's game known as battledore and shuttlecock, a game that was most prominent in ancient India. The battledore was a paddle and the shuttlecock was a small feathered cork, colloquially called a bird. [27]
The game of seven stones, which is one of the 75 games featured by Bharatiya Khel. Bharatiya Khel (Hindi: भारतीय खेल, transl. Indian Games) is an initiative of the Indian government under the National Education Policy (NEP) and Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) policies to introduce 75 traditional Indian games into schools across the country.
India vs Iran at the 2023 Asian Kho Kho Championship.Kho kho is South Asia's second-most popular tag game. After the British colonisation of the subcontinent which peaked from the 19th century to 1947, Western sports such as cricket, football, and hockey began to be followed to a greater extent, to the detriment of the traditional games.
Traditional sports and games (often abbreviated TSG) are physical activities which were played for centuries by people around the world before the advent of modern Western sports. Many TSGs lost popularity or died off during the colonial era due to the imposition and spread of Western sports .