Games are played as pleasure, to ensure better physique to participants and of course for entertainment. Various games were developed round the globe which varied up to certain proportion depending on environmental and social situations. Manipur is a tiny land situated at North Eastern corner of India which was subject to influence from various streams of human races thus formed an unique culture. It has influence on their games and sports too. The book deals with traditional games of Manipur. Since the games were developed during various periods of history they have historical perspective. Therefore history of Manipur has been discussed as introduction. If Manipur is taken from various races, it is also given too. The game of Polo originated in Manipur which has been globalised. Contribution of Manipur in modern game is also discussed in brief. It is expected that the book shall be of great help to scholars, social scientists and planners so that these games may be globalised to give us a happy world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR G K Ghosh
He is graduated in Chemical Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Rourkella. After graduation served number of organizations like Hindustan Lever Ltd., I.B.P Co. Ltd., Konark Detergents and Soaps Ltd., and finally joined Khadi & Village Industries Commission as director in the year 1982 retiring as Joint Chief Executive Officer in the year 2008. after retirement he was made member and chairman respectively of two important committees of Ministry of Science & Technology. He is also working with two rural based groups to develop environment friendly rural industrialization. He has presented more than 40 papers in Anthropology in various sessions of Indian Science Congress. More than 80 articles in various subjects written in English, Hindi, Bengali and Oriya were published in various journals and news papers of repute. He had authored more than 50 books out of which 48 were published. The subjects ranged from disaster Management, Anthropology, Environmental Issues, Renewable Energy, Ayurveda etc. he is well traveled all Indian States and most of the European countries. He was trained in Industtrial Cluster from International labor Organisation Training center at Turin, Italy.
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