The importance of martial art Gatka can hardly be overestimated. [...]

THE SHASTRS USED DURING GATKA The following common Shastras (Weapons) [...]

Gatka is like an art in life, it isn’t just [...]

The natives captivated by martial art devised and developed fighting [...]

GATKA AS A SPORT Gatka sport is being played with [...]

Sikh Shastra Vidhya and Gatka underwent a period of decline [...]

Sikh Shastra Vidhya and Gatka underwent a period of decline [...]

The natives captivated by martial art devised and developed fighting or defensive techniques with sticks on their motherlands as a method of training intended to simulate the swords such as the cavalry sabre or cutlass. In the USA during the early years of the 1900s, fencer, self-defense specialist and military engineer Andrew Chase Cunningham developed a unique system of stick-fighting using a walking stick, which he recorded in his book The Cane as a Weapon.

Gatka is the name of an Indian traditional Sikh martial art associated with the Sikhs history of India and an integral part of an array of Sikh Shastra Vidhya. The present form that further developed in later 19th century, out of sword practice, is divided in two sub-styles, called Rasmi (traditional) and Khel (sport) from the 1920s in the undivided Punjab.