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INDIA POLO

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  • -It's polo season in India, and the well-bred man and horse alike are again facing off on grassy fields, endlessly mingling sport and spectacle at the Jaipur Polo Ground in New Delhi, India Sunday Nov. 3, 2002. There are galloping horses imported from Argentina and grooms in bright maroon turbans to care for them. There are wealthy players shouting in Hindi, Spanish and the most refined Oxford English. There are flocks of model-thin women in tight jeans and flashy jewelry.
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  • Polo players line up with their Pizza Cup trophees, big and small, at the official award ceremony following the final match at the Jaipur Polo Ground in New Delhi, India Sunday Nov. 3, 2002.   "Polo was a team game before," said Maharani Gayatri Devi, the 85-year-old queen mother of the former royal state of Jaipur, India's polo capital.  A 21st-century magnate may be a mediocre player, but he can ride with the best by hiring professionals "assassins," polo's old guard calls them
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  • An Indian woman wearing a traditional Indian Sari sips her tea at the end cocktail party for the Pizza hut Polo tournament at the Jaipur Polo Ground in New Delhi, India Sunday Nov. 3, 2002. "The chiffon and pearl brigade, we call it," said Asmita Agarwal, a tough-talking polo and fashion writer for the Hindustan Times. "Women in chiffon saris dripping with huge diamonds ... They're all royalty, or at least they're trying to be royalty."  In many ways, that's what modern Indian polo is about joining the new royalty.
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  • It's polo season in India, and an Indian polo official waits patiently for the riders to score a goal  at the Jaipur Polo Ground in New Delhi, India Sunday Nov. 10, 2002. Invented in South Asia hundreds of years ago, and refined by generations of colonial English cavalrymen, Indian polo had largely disappeared by the 1980s,in the past few years, polo has found new patrons in the magnates who have emerged since India opened up its economy. Elizabeth Dalziel
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  • It's polo season in India, and the well-bred man and horse alike are again facing off on grassy fields, endlessly mingling sport and spectacle at the Jaipur Polo Ground in New Delhi, India Sunday Nov. 10, 2002. Invented in South Asia hundreds of years ago, and refined by generations of colonial English cavalrymen, Indian polo had largely disappeared by the 1980s,in the past few years, polo has found new patrons in the magnates who have emerged since India opened up its economy.
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  • It's polo season in India, amid heavy fog and the well-bred man and horse alike are again face off on grassy field, endlessly mingling sport and spectacle at the Jaipur Polo Ground in New Delhi, India Friday Nov. 1, 2002.  When the heat of summer fades, and the winter haze settles over the Indian plains, the rich return to the playing fields of New Delhi, and the sport of the maharajas returns to this ancient city.
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  • Endlessly mingling sport and spectacle India's new royalty tend to be resolute Anglophiles. In a polo crowd, the talk is often of country houses, Eton and insider gossip about the British royal family during cocktail parties at the Jaipur Polo Ground in New Delhi, India Sunday Nov. 3, 2002. It can be easy, amid the circus:stands filled with the rich, the pretending-to-be-rich and the aspiring-to-be-rich, to not even notice the matches. Well-fought, polo is a startlingly beautiful game, a duel of men and horses.They are a show unto themselves.
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  • Indian waiters and servants sitting behind curtains where the spectators and Polo crowd are seated, wait next to Indian trade mark Ambassador car for the Pizza cup final to end and for the cocktail to begin at the Jaipur Polo Ground in New Delhi, India Sunday Nov. 3, 2002. "The chiffon and pearl brigade, we call it," said Asmita Agarwal, a tough-talking polo and fashion writer for the Hindustan Times. "Women in chiffon saris dripping with huge diamonds ... They're all royalty, or at least they're trying to be royalty."  In many ways, that's what modern Indian polo is about joining the new royalty.
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