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Evidence for Challis Ghutia (Titagarh)
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1647
Type Ethnography
Location 22°44'17.83"N, 88°22'25.30"E
Date 1939-01-01 - 1939-12-31
Rules 9x9 board played on the intersections, with diagonals for each 3x3 square. Typically played with 24 pieces, but any number up to 40 is possible. Pieces are arranged on the spots in the rows closest to the player, with those unable to fill a row placed on the right points of the next available row. Players alternate turns by moving a piece to an adjacent empty spot along the lines on the board. A player may capture an opponent's piece by hopping over one adjacent piece if there is an empty spot behind it along a line on the board. The player who captures all of the opponent's pieces wins.
Content "At Tittagarh, some 13 miles north of Calcutta, the popularion is heterogeneous and consists mainly of mill-hands coming from the United Provinces, Bihar, Orissa, and Madras. There we have found several degenerate forms of Challis-Ghuti played by men and boys, some of whom are born there and some come from their native districts in the U.P. and Madras. The diagram used is somewhat different from that shown in Fig. 1. It is shown in Fig. 2. Though the game is described by the players as Challis-Ghutia, it is generally played with pieces far less in number than 40. Sometimes 16, 18, 24, and 32 pieces are used by each player; 24 being the most frequent number. The pieces are arranged along the horizontal lines; and any excess over multiples of 9 are placed along the right-hand side of the next line. The usual rules of capture and successive captures are followed." Datta 1939: 258.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Non-Elite, Craftsperson
Genders Male
Source Datta, J. 1939. "Challis-Gutia and its Degenerate Variants." Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 5: 257-258.
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