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watched the king's soldiers play "horse hockey." the british too joined in, and soon the game spread to calcutta, and from there to britain, where they recorded the rules for the game at the prestigious hurlingham club, and called it polo. the indigenous, semi-feral manipuri pony is the original polo animal
. it was sacred to the meiteis, manipur's largest ethnic group and not used for domestic work, but only for sport, ritual and war. over decades, as unrest mounted in manipur, the storied pony lost most of its grazing areas, and was found roaming the streets and eating garbage. in , roy, a film curator...
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