Manipur has sent a tableau themed on one of its most significant traditional sports 'sagol kangjei' (polo) to the Bharat Parv ...
Polo has a long history. In South Asia, the ancient Meitei treatise, Kangjeiroi, dates the game to around 1400 BCE at the court of Ningthou Kangba, who ruled the ancient state of Kangleipak in present ...
Around this time, the sport of Sagol Kangjei or Polo finds mention in the royal chronicle Chaitharol-Kumbaba. Coins were also issued by Maranba (1256 A.D.) Khagemba, Paikhomba (1666 A.D.), and Cha ...