FIH HOCKEY
(Persian: "goat
hauling") likewise spelled bozkashī, a rough equestrian game, played dominatingly by Turkic people groups in northern
Afghanistan, in which riders
contend to seize and
hold control of a goat or calf cadaver.
Buzkashī has
two primary structures: the customary, grassroots game, known as tūdabarāy
(Persian [Dari]: "emerging from the group"), and the cutting edge
government-supported adaptation, qarajāy ("dark spot"). Both element
mounted contenders who battle for control of a beheaded, dehoofed, and, some of
the time, destroyed cadaver weighing somewhere in the range of 40 to 100 pounds
(20 to 50 kg), the killed body being lighter. Neither one of the styles has
numerous proper guidelines, yet normal decorum forbids a player from gnawing or
pulling the hair of a rival, snatching the reins of an adversary's mount, or
utilizing weapons. Conventional tūdabarāy games, be that as it may, have no
proper groups and are not played inside plainly characterized spatial limits.
Master riders known as chapandāzān (particular chapandāz) overwhelm play,
however — in games that frequently include many riders — everybody has the
option to contend. The target of play in the tūdabarāy style is, from an
underlying mounted scrum, to oversee the cadaver and ride it without a care in
the world regarding any remaining riders. "Without a care in the
world," be that as it may, is hard to pass judgment, and debates are
normal. Fierce play can promptly move to genuine brutality.
The
objectives and limits of the public authority supported qarajāy style are all
the more plainly characterized, and subsequently games are simpler to control.
Two groups that seldom surpass 10-12 riders battle over a characterized field
with set banners and circles — the "dark spots" — as objectives. In
additional steady times, the Kabul competition arbitrators were generally
military officials who controlled factious riders with dangers of detainment.
While
members might see buzkashī as happy tomfoolery, the two types of the game are
played in a verifiably political setting, in which benefactors — in northern
Afghanistan, the conventional world class (khans) — look to illustrate, and
accordingly improve, their ability to control occasions in the nation's
steadily moving power structure. Benefactors breed and train ponies and recruit
chapandāzān to ride them. Riders of all expertise levels meet at different
formal social events (tūʾīs), the highlight of which is a day or a greater
amount of buzkashī rivalry. These get-togethers are status-arranged occasions
that openly test the social, monetary, and political assets of the supporting
khan — or, for qarajāy, of the public authority. In tūdabarāy, various rounds
of buzkashī are played each day, and the support grants prizes to the champ of
each. In the event that the support's assets demonstrate adequate and he can
forestall unnecessary savagery, the tūʾī is for the most part considered a
triumph, and he acquires status; assuming the support falls flat, his standing
can be destroyed.
Buzkashī
began among the migrant Turkic people groups (Uzbek, Turkmen, Kazak, and
Kyrgyz) — logical as an engaging variation of normal crowding or striking — who
spread toward the west from China and Mongolia between the tenth and fifteenth
hundreds of years; the relatives of these individuals are presently the game's
center players. It is well known transcendently in Afghanistan yet in addition
is held as an unsure social remainder in the Muslim republics north of
Afghanistan and in pieces of northwestern China. Other ethnic gatherings in
northern Afghanistan have all the more as of late entered the way of life of
buzkashī, including Persian (Dari)- speaking Tajiks and Ḥazāra from western
Afghanistan and Pashtun travelers from south of the Hindu Kush mountain range.
Starting in
the mid-1950s, the Kabul-based focal government facilitated public
competitions, first on the birthday of Ruler Mohammad Zahir Shah (ruled
1933-73) and afterward on dates politically profitable to ensuing systems. The
public authority had unlimited oversight over buzkashī matches by 1977. As
focal power lessened during the Afghan Conflict (1978-92), thus, as well, did
the capacity of the then-communist government to organize buzkashī competitions
in Kabul. Subsequently, the system's distinction was harmed, and it neglected
further endeavors to arrange competitions after 1982. Accordingly, resistance mujahedeen
authorities in the field started supporting their own buzkashī matches, and
after that time Afghan evacuees some of the time played the game in Pakistan
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