Cock Game
A gamecock is placed in the cockpit by two owners. The cocks battle it out until one of them is seriously hurt or dies. This was historically in a cockpit, a word that also denoted a place of amusement or frantic activity in the sixteenth century. In Henry V, William Shakespeare employed the term to refer expressly to the space surrounding a theater's stage. The Cockpit-in-Court was a permanent cockpit located at the Palace of Westminster during the Tudor era.
The sport was brought to Ancient Greece during Themistocles' reign 524–460 BC and was already well-liked in India, China, Persia, and other Eastern nations. The Romans disliked this Greek diversion for a long time, but they eventually embraced it with such fervor that Columella, an agricultural writer, complained in the first century AD that its followers frequently gambled away their entire inheritance at the edge of the pit.
Cockfighting is not permitted as a sport in India, as declared by the Supreme Court, which also declared that the act directly contravenes the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960.26 The Indian Police Superintendent, M Ravindranath Babu, claims that it is also regarded as an appropriation of customary celebrations for the purpose of encouraging unlawful betting and gambling. Despite this, institutional opposition to cockfighting prohibitions from the government exists. The local Bharatiya Janata Party district committee advocated for the permission to hold cockfights at India's 2012 Sun God festival. The local police then consented to this if it happened inside the temples.
Despite a 1960 nationwide prohibition, cockfights are still popular in the southern Indian states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka. It's a local event that usually happens in January during harvest festival festivities. Similar to Jallikattu, the ancient spectator sport of Cock fighting (Seval Sandai) is referenced in Sangam literature Pattinappalai and Tirumuruka pruppatai.
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