gilli-danda

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Sanskrit दण्ड (daṇḍa). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Where is the first element from?

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gilli-danda (uncountable)

  1. A game played in several Asian countries, in which a large stick is used to hit a small oval-shaped piece of wood. It is played much like tipcat, baseball, and cricket.
    • 1970, Instructor, Volume 80, Instructor Publications
      It is played by children of all ages. Boys like it especially, but it is not unusual to see girls and even adults playing Gilli Danda!
    • 2004, Triveni: Journal of Indian Renaissance, Volume 73, Triveni Publishers:
      Bhuvan the hero of the film to understand 'cricket', relates it to his understanding of their native folk game of Gilli Danda. He says: ball (image of the silli thing) is gola-gola-ball, bat-phalli-phalli-bat.
    • 2011, Bhaskar Majumder, Rethinking Villages, Concept Publishing Company, page 110:
      The indigenous games like gilli-danda, goli, kabaddi, tash, kabootar urana (pigeon flying), erhi koodna (long jump), surra, cheel jhapatna, tahat etc., were commonly played by both children and adults of the village[...]
    • 2013, Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Shantanu Chakrabarti, Kingshuk Chatterjee, The Politics of Sport in South Asia, Routledge, page 156:
      This happens because the hero of the film asserts that cricket is only a poor copy of their own age-old children's game of gilli-danda. So this mockery inverts the colonizing mission of civilizing the childlike natives on its head and also 'desecrates the "purity" of cricket roots' asserted by the British.
    • 2013, Hachette India, Indiapedia: The All-India Factfinder:
      Also called guli danda, Gilli Danda is a sport for an amateur which is very popular among rural youth. It is known as Danguli in Bengali, Kuttiyam Kolum in Malayalam, Kitti-Pullu in Tamil, Chinni-Dandu in Kannada, Gooti-Billa in Telugu and Lappa-Duggi in Pashto. It follows the structure of cricket or baseball, only it is played with sticks.
    • 2015, Victoria Williams Ph.D., Weird Sports and Wacky Games around the World: From Buzkashi to Zorbing, ABC-CLIO, page 122:
      A game of gilli-danda continues until all players have had a turn at being on strike. The winning team is the side that records the most danda lengths and thus scores the most points.

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