Kho-Kho is one of the popular indigenous games of India and is an inexpensive sport like kabaddi because it does not require much equipment. Many historians are of the view that the game of Kho-Kho is a modified version of ‘Run and Chase’. In ancient era, a version of the Kho-Kho game was played on raths or chariots in Maharashtra. This was known as Rathera.
First sets of Kho-Kho rules were framed in the earlier part of 1900. A committee was constituted by the Gymkhana, Pune in 1914 for framing the Kho-Kho rules and the first Kho-Kho rule book was published in 1924 by Gymkhana, Baroda.
