This volume provides biographic sketches and achievements of 54 ‘Eminent Women in Sports’ from various countries who competed and excelled in different games and sports on national and international scale. In the history of games and sports there was a time when games and sports had been the monopoly of men, and women were either denied or discouraged in this field. But a new era began with the spread of education and technology, awareness and gender equity when the women also took part in various popular games and sports specializing and excelling on international level and certainly the light came from the west. In this publication the caricatures of these 54 women athletes, sportspersons and players undoubtedly prove that women in the modern age have reached to great heights in the field of various games and sports on an international scale. This publication will certainly be welcomed by those who are interested in knowing the performances and achievements of the women athletes in national, continental or international games and sports meets.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR K.L. Chanchreek
K.L. Chanchreek is a great scholar and Indologist, academician and cultural activist, linquist and folklorist, poet and litteratueur, biographer and bibliographer. Born in delhi (1933) and educated at Agra, Delhi and Punjab Universities (1952-1957), he served in various capacities under the Government of India as Research Assistant, Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology and later Member, Experts Advisory Committee, Chief Librarian, M/o Commerce and Industry, General Manager, Modern Food Industries (A govt. of India Undertaking) Chief Editor, Collected Works of Dr. Ambedkar (Dr. Ambedkar Foundatioin, Govt. of India), and Academic Adviser, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar School of Social Sciences, Bundelkhand University. He has edited several literary and social journals. He has also written an compited books and research publications on a wide range of subjects like Jainology, Buddism, literature, library and information science folklore, Dalit movement, international nad current affairs as well as on national leaders. He has nearly four dozen titles to his credit both in Hindi and English brought out by the leading publishers and Government departments.
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