Pehlwani, also known as Kushti, is a form of wrestling contested in the Indian subcontinent. It was developed in the Mughal Empire by combining Persian...

Westmorland, Devonshire and Cornish) along with influences from the Indian pehlwani and Irish collar-and-elbow styles of wrestling. In America by 1840 they...

This is a list of Pehlwani wrestlers who played in Olympics, Asian Games and State level Kesari tournaments. Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav – 1952 Olympic bronze...

wrestling were incorporated to the local Malla-yuddha to form the modern Pehlwani, wrestling style popular throughout India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in modern...

Greco-Roman, judo, sambo, folkstyle, catch, shoot, luta livre, submission, sumo, pehlwani, shuai jiao, and others. Another form is professional wrestling, which...

been practiced since ancient times, mainly in Punjab (Pehlwani) and Sindh (Malakhra). Pehlwani (Urdu, Punjabi: پہلوانی) is a form of wrestling mainly...

is also a 17th-century Dhanurveda-samhita attributed to Vasistha. The pehlwani style of wrestling developed in the Mughal Empire by combining native malla-yuddha...

gold medal at World Wrestling Championships. Kumar started training in pehlwani at the Chhatrasal Stadium's akhada at the age of 14. He was trained at...

India. Several traditional indigenous sports such as kabaddi, kho kho, pehlwani and gilli-danda, and also martial arts such as Kalarippayattu and marma...

53 inches (130 cm). Due to his physique, he was encouraged to take up pehlwani, an Indian style of wrestling, in which he trained for several years. After...