Google Doodle celebrates India's first female wrestler Hamida Banu
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Google Doodle celebrates India's first female wrestler Hamida Banu

India TV News  

Hamida Banu is a name, hard to look past when you turn the pages of Indian wrestling. Regarded as the first woman wrestler in India, Hamida Banu, blazed a trail for generations to follow. As Google Doodle celebrates the first Indian woman wrestler on May 4, let's take a trip down memory lane and trace the history of Hamida Banu's rise to stardom. A resident of Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh, Hamida Banu became popular as the "Amazon of Aligarh" and earned a fandom that many of her male counterparts wished for. Renowned Indian author Maheshwar Dayal gave an account of Hamida Banu in a book published in 1987 and described her wrestling technique as identical to that of male wrestlers.

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'Amazon of Aligarh': Google Doodle pays tribute to India's first woman wrestler Hamida Banu
7 months, 2 weeks ago

'Amazon of Aligarh': Google Doodle pays tribute to India's first woman wrestler Hamida Banu

The Hindu  

It was on this day in 1954 when Hamida Banu defeated famed wrestler Baba Pahalwan in just one minute and 34 seconds. Commemorating Banu's victory and to pay tribute to her as "India's first woman wrestler," Google on May 4 put up a colourful doodle on its homepage. Born into a family of wrestlers in the early 1900s near Aligarh, …

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