NAM.1960-06-80-1-300

Photograph: British and Indian members of the Indian Cavalry Polo Tournament, winning team, 1930 Inscribed as title above and with the names of the sitters who are R C Dening, Thompson, Gulshar Khan, G B Howell From an album of 484 photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings, 1858-1961. Inscribed on cover, ‘PRESENTED BY THE 19TH KGV’S OWN LANCERS EX-OFFICERS REUNION ASSOCIATION 1958’. With a foreword by Maj Gen Roland Dening, CB, MVO, MC. DL, 1960. Associated with 18th King George’s Own Lancers, 19th Lancers (Fane’s Horse) and 19th King George’s Own Lancers. Although various forms of polo had been played on the subcontinent for hundreds of years, it was the British during the second half of the 19th century who formalised this ancient sport into the game we know today. The Indian Army quickly took up the sport from the 1860s onwards.