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GYMKHANA - LoveToKnow Article on GYMKHANA |
 | | According to Yule the first use of it that can be traced was, on the authority of Major John Trotter, at Rurki in the year 1861, when a gymkhana was instituted there. |
 | | Gymkhana sports were invented to relieve the monotony of Indian station life, and both officers and men from the ranks took part in them. |
 | | Among these may be mentioned the usual military sports; such as tent-pegging, lemon-cutting and obstacle racing; rickshaw racing; tilting at the ring, sack, pillion, hurdle, egg-and-spoon, blindfold, threading-the-needle and many other kinds of races depending upon the inventive powers of the committees in charge. |
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