Editing Kabaddi (section)

=== Modern era ===
[[File:Iran women's national kabaddi team 1397060223024478215137374.jpg|thumb|The Iranian women's team won the [[Kabaddi at the 2018 Asian Games – Women|2018 Asian Games kabaddi final]] against India, showcasing the rise of the sport outside of South Asia.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2018-08-24 |title=Asian Games 2018: India's defeat reflects Kabaddi's globalisation, says coach L Srinivas Reddy |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/asian-games/asian-games-2018-indias-defeat-reflects-kabaddis-globalisation-says-coach-l-srinivas-reddy-5323564/ |access-date=2024-08-26 |work=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref>]]
Modern kabaddi is a synthesis of the game played in various forms under different names in the Indian subcontinent.<ref>{{cite book |last=Chaudhary |first=Vivek |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1065964564 |title=Kabaddi by Nature |year=2018 |isbn=978-93-82622-28-4 |publisher=Palimpsest Publishers |location=New Delhi |oclc=1065964564}}</ref> India has been first credited with having helped to popularise kabaddi as a competitive sport, with the first organised competitions occurring in the 1920s,<ref name="khelnow.com">{{cite web |last=Jha |first=Tarkesh |title=Kabaddi: Origin, rules and the Pro Kabaddi League |url=https://khelnow.com/kabaddi/kabaddi-rules-history-pkl |access-date=24 January 2021 |website=Khel Now}}</ref> their introduction to the programme of the [[National Games of India]] in 1938, the establishment of the All-India Kabaddi Federation in 1950,<ref name="khelnow.com"/> and it being played as a [[demonstration sport]] at the [[1951 Asian Games|inaugural 1951 Asian Games]] in New Delhi. These developments helped to formalise the sport, which had traditionally been played on muddy surfaces in villages,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Shukla |first=Kaushal |date=2019-10-16 |title=From mud to mat: How kabaddi went from India's indigenous game to multi-faceted professional sport |url=https://scroll.in/field/940355/from-mud-to-mat-how-kabaddi-went-from-indias-indigenous-game-to-multi-faceted-professional-sport |access-date=2024-01-29 |work=Scroll.in |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-06-15 |title=From Raiding on Clay to Raiding on Mats: E Prasad Rao Explains How Kabaddi Has Evolved Over the Years |url=https://www.news18.com/sports/e-prasad-rao-kabaddi-evolution-raiding-on-clay-to-raiding-on-mats-pro-kabaddi-league-8086075.html |access-date=2024-01-29 |work=News18 |language=en}}</ref> for legitimate international competition.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Sengupta |first=Debdatta |date=22 October 2016 |title=The kabaddi question - whose game is it anyway? |language=en |work=ESPN.com |url=http://www.espn.com/kabaddi/story/_/id/17854768/the-kabaddi-question-game-anyway |access-date=20 August 2018}}</ref><ref name="Sen2015">{{cite book |first=Ronojoy |last=Sen |title=Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O5mACgAAQBAJ |date=27 October 2015 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-53993-7}}</ref><ref name="Dhaka Tribune"/>

The first framework of rules for the sport was [[Sports in Maharashtra#Indigenous sports under British rule|prepared]] in [[Maharashtra]] in the 1920s, with [[English sports]] serving as a model for this formalisation.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Love |first1=Adam |last2=Dzikus |first2=Lars |date=2020-02-26 |title=How India came to love cricket, favored sport of its colonial British rulers |url=http://theconversation.com/how-india-came-to-love-cricket-favored-sport-of-its-colonial-british-rulers-132302 |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}</ref> One of the earliest modern tournaments of the sport, the All India Kabaddi Tournament in 1923, was played according to these amended rules.<ref name=":5" /> After being demonstrated again at the [[1982 Asian Games]] in Delhi, kabaddi was added to the Asian Games programme beginning in 1990.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Chaudhary |first=Amit |date=3 August 2014 |title=Kabaddi goes international |language=en |work=Daily Pioneer |url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/sunday-edition/sunday-pioneer/sports-feature/kabaddi-goes-international.html |access-date=23 August 2018}}</ref>

The advent of the [[Pro Kabaddi League]] (PKL) in 2014 revolutionised the standard style of the sport, with various rule changes being made; for example, whereas previously raids had no time limit other than the breathing capacity of the raider,{{Efn|The only way for a raid to end in pre-PKL kabaddi without the raider escaping or being captured in the defensive team's half of the field was if the raider failed to hold his breath.}} the PKL rules introduced the concept of a standard 30-second time limit for every raid.<ref name=":4" />