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Mallakhamb team performing Hoop diving. Mallakhamb or mallakhamba is a traditional Indian sport in which a gymnast performs feats and poses in concert with a vertical wooden pole or rope.

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Mallakhamb or mallakhamba is a traditional Indian sport in which a gymnast performs feats and poses in concert with a vertical wooden pole or rope. The word also refers to the pole used in the sport.

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Mallakhamb or mallakhamba is a traditional Indian sport in which a gymnast performs feats and poses in concert with a vertical wooden pole or rope. The word also refers to the pole used in the sport.

sport

Mallakhamb or mallakhamba is a traditional Indian sport in which a gymnast performs feats and poses in concert with a vertical wooden pole or rope. The word also refers to the pole used in the sport.

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Mallakhamb or mallakhamba is a traditional Indian sport in which a gymnast performs feats and poses in concert with a vertical wooden pole or rope. The word also refers to the pole used in the sport.

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Kushti (also: Kusti, Koshti) is a traditional rural sport of India. Kushti is a form of traditional Indian combative wrestling. In India, Kushti takes place in a clay or dirt pit.. Here, wrestlers live under strict rules.

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Young Indian boys training to be wrestlers! Kushti (also: Kusti, Koshti) is a traditional sport of India. Kushti is a form of combat traditional Indian wrestling. In India, Kushti takes place in a clay or dirt pit..

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Indian style wrestling or Kushti at an Akhara or wrestling arena in Delhi. Kushti is India's traditional wrestling on soil.

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Young Indian wrestlers taking part at Wrestling Competition at Sir Fair in Himachal Pradesh. One can see a huge crowd gather to witness a wrestling match. Himachal Pradesh is very famous in terms of its culture, fairs and festivals.

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Country mud wrestling at the Arki Sair mela in Himachal's Solan and nearby districts. Himachal Pradesh is very famous in terms of its culture, fairs and festivals.

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Young Indian wrestlers taking part at Wrestling Competition at Sir Fair in Himachal Pradesh. One can see a huge crowd gather to witness a wrestling match. Himachal Pradesh is very famous in terms of its culture, fairs and festivals.

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Indian wrestlers taking part at Wrestling Competition at Sair Fair in Himachal Pradesh. One can see a huge crowd gather to witness a wrestling match. Himachal Pradesh is very famous in terms of its culture, fairs and festivals.

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Pehlwani or kushti is a form of wrestling from South Asia. It was developed in the Mughal era through a synthesis of the malla-yuddha form of wrestling in South Asia and the Iranian Varzesh-e Bastani.

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Indian wrestlers taking part at Wrestling Competition at Sir Fair in Himachal Pradesh. One can see a huge crowd gather to witness a wrestling match. Himachal Pradesh is very famous in terms of its culture, fairs and festivals.

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Young Indian wrestlers taking part at Wrestling Competition at Sir Fair in Himachal Pradesh. One can see a huge crowd gather to witness a wrestling match. Himachal Pradesh is very famous in terms of its culture, fairs and festivals.

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Notice the Hindu swastik / swastika sign on the wall of the gymnasium behind the wrestlers! Pehlwani or kushti is a form of wrestling from South Asia.

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Indian wrestlers taking part at Wrestling Competition at Sair Fair at Arki in Himachal Pradesh. One can see a huge crowd gather to witness a wrestling match. Himachal Pradesh is very famous in terms of its culture, fairs and festivals.

festival · sport

Indian wrestlers taking part at Wrestling Competition at Sir Fair in Himachal Pradesh. We also see a huge crowd gather to witness a wrestling match. Himachal Pradesh is very famous in terms of its culture, fairs and festivals.

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Mukna or traditional Manipuri wrestling in full progress. Mukna wrestling was added to the sports event which was organised at the Sangai Festival, Manipur.

sport · village

Kushti (also: Kusti, Koshti) is a traditional rural sport of India. Kushti is a form of traditional Indian combative wrestling. In India, Kushti takes place in a clay or dirt pit.. Here, wrestlers live under strict rules.

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Crowd gather to witness wrestling match organised during Sair fair at Arki, Himachal Pradesh. Himachal Pradesh is very famous in terms of its culture, fairs and festivals.

Nagaland·sport · hills

The most popular sport in the state of Nagaland by far, is an indigenous form of wrestling. Seen here are wrestlers in about at the Hornbill Naga Wrestling competition 2013.

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Indian wrestlers taking part at Wrestling Competition at Sair Fair at Arki in Himachal Pradesh. One can see a huge crowd gather to witness a wrestling match. Himachal Pradesh is very famous in terms of its culture, fairs and festivals.