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The Pashtuns are descendents of a lost Jewish tribe who went through Persia (Today Iran), where they picked the ancient game of Polo. The game was invented in Persia well before Christ. So they adopted it and took it with them to their new lands in the east - and kept it alive to modern time, but the original game was Persian.
TheEEStudent 1 week ago
BBC you are terribly misinformed...the modern game of polo originated from a place in the current north east part of india...the world's oldest pologround lies there and the dimensions of today's standard pologround is the actual size of that polo field...these things are well documented in guinness book of world records..for a brief preview check the polo page in wikipedia
manithoi 6 months ago
@manithoi A jealous Indian twisting facts.
RayKalmNiam 4 months ago
@manithoi Polo is actually a pushtun sport and pushtuns live in afghanistan and Pakistan. so the sport is native to that region not India. Stop being such a typical jealous indian twit. cheers choora.
subsrebel 3 weeks ago
Polo is my Game and i am from Northern areas of pakistan we had about many many polo grounds in the villages but now a days there are some left as the people have sell their horses and the land is gone by some natural phenomena so there are some grounds left now the Gilgit and Chitral have teams who play the original game of polo with no helmets and other stuff so they play it like old times and some times people get hurt and the horses get wild ,traditional music is played.
Muddassir1005 1 year ago
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The origin of polo is not clear, but by far the most possible place of its origin is called Manipur, in northeast India, where it is locally known as ''Sagol Kangjei". Even the oldest polo ground is located in Manipur.
I can't believe BBC makes such claims about its origin.
Uglyadonis 1 year ago
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Uglyadonis 1 year ago
Here is a voice in us which is ever present
Rumi writes
Do you Think what I'am doing .
That for a moment ,or even half a moment,
I know what verses will come from my mouth?
I am no more than a pen in a writers hand,
No more than a Ball smacked around by a Polo Stick!
I could not find Better words,,,
As per the Chitral people are concerned watching them play Polo and being mesmerised by the movement of Horses the free gallop of an amazing Horse is very much appriciated By the crowd ,
mbbugi 2 years ago 2
excellent
windlessnight 3 years ago
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Such a Fantastic series!!
I'm Sorry to point this out, but at 1:31 the guy on the left really looks like Osama Bin Laden!!
Hillbilly31091 4 years ago