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Sikh Martial Arts: About Sikh Martial Art
Sikh Martial Arts: About Sikh Martial Art: Gatka (Punjabi: ਗਤਕਾ Gatka) is the name of an Indian martial art with the Sikhs of the Punjab region connected. It is a style of fighting with swords and sticks. The Punjabi name Gatka refers properly used on the wooden stick. The word comes from Sanskrit as a diminutive gada "club". By design, Gatka defensive and offensive and focused, both the physical with the mental and spiritual.
The style guru Hargobind Sahib emerged during the period in which dev made because of the severity of the Mughal oppression of the Sikhs and the ruthless attack on his father Guru Arjan, Guru Hargobind taught the art of Nihangs. But during the British Raj had much diluted by the martial arts and has been banned, and for this to be a division into two sub-style, the so-called Rasmi (ritualistic) and khel (sport) from the 1880s. It has been a revival during the late 20th Century, was an international Gatka Federation founded in 1982 and formalized in 1987 and Gatka is now more popular than sports or sword dance and performance art is often shown during Sikh festivals.
Since this revival, has the term Gatka sometimes came to "Sikh martial art" be expanded in general, including the use of various weapons, more correctly called Shastar Vidiya (Punjabi ਸ਼ਸਤਰ ਵਿਦਿਆ Shastar Vidiya, from Sanskrit Shastra-Vidya "martial arts" ). The term in this sense, especially as used since 2002 by Niddar Singh called historical martial arts reconstruction of 16 to 18 CenturySikh martial arts.
The style guru Hargobind Sahib emerged during the period in which dev made because of the severity of the Mughal oppression of the Sikhs and the ruthless attack on his father Guru Arjan, Guru Hargobind taught the art of Nihangs. But during the British Raj had much diluted by the martial arts and has been banned, and for this to be a division into two sub-style, the so-called Rasmi (ritualistic) and khel (sport) from the 1880s. It has been a revival during the late 20th Century, was an international Gatka Federation founded in 1982 and formalized in 1987 and Gatka is now more popular than sports or sword dance and performance art is often shown during Sikh festivals.
Since this revival, has the term Gatka sometimes came to "Sikh martial art" be expanded in general, including the use of various weapons, more correctly called Shastar Vidiya (Punjabi ਸ਼ਸਤਰ ਵਿਦਿਆ Shastar Vidiya, from Sanskrit Shastra-Vidya "martial arts" ). The term in this sense, especially as used since 2002 by Niddar Singh called historical martial arts reconstruction of 16 to 18 CenturySikh martial arts.
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