Pana Kangjei / Sagol Kangjei - an indigenous game from Manipur during the Sangai Festival 2011 at Mapal Kangjeibung in November 2011.
Only the name Pana Kangjei is retained to distinguish the Manipuri traditional polo from the modern polo.
Sagol Kangjei always enjoyed the patronage of Manipur kings.
After the Anglo-Manipur War 1891, when Manipur came under British suzerainty (not as a part of the British India), the government continued its patronage by including a separate provision for polo in the Manipur State Budget.
A Maharaja-in-Council, under a democratic Manipur constitution, governed when the British left the Indian subcontinent in 1947 .
Picture Credit :: Jinendra Maibam