Independent India’s historical tour of East Africa 1947-48
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On 30 January in 1948, Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated. That time the Indian men’s hockey team led by Dhyan Chand was touring East Africa. They came to know the assassination when in Dar-es-Salam, Tanganyika. More such details in the meticulously researched article – Editor
by Dil Bahra (UK) and Del Mudher (Kenya)
India’s first overseas tour after Independence was to British East Africa in December 1947. Hockey in Kenya during that period was run by The European Hockey Association of Kenya and The Asian Sports Association of Kenya until Hockey Association of Kenya (H.A.K.) (later renamed as Kenya Hockey Union [K.H.U.]) was formed on 2nd June 1949.