Gatka
Gatka is the name of an Indian martial art associated with the Sikhs of the Punjab region. It is a style of stick fighting, with wooden sticks intended to simulate swords. The Punjabi name gatka properly refers to the wooden stick used. The word originates as a diminutive of Sanskrit gada "mace".The style originated in later 19th century, out of sword practice in the British Indian Army, divided in two sub-style, called rasmi (ritualistic) and khel (sport) from the 1880s. There has been a revival during the later 20th century, with an International Gatka Federation was founded in 1982 and formalized in 1987, and gatka is now popular as a sport or sword dance performance art and is often shown during Sikh festivals. Since this revival, the term gatka has sometimes come to be extended to Sikh martial arts more generally, including the use of various weapons, more properly called Shastar Vidiya ( from Sanskrit śastra-vidyā "martial arts"). Used in this sense, the term denotes historical martial arts reconstruction of 16th to 18th century Sikh fighting styles.
Weapons
Talwar: curved sword
Kirpan: Sharp dagger worn by baptized sikhs at all times
Flexible weapons, such as whips and chains.
Bow and arrow: either traditional Indian steel recurve bows or true composite bows made of wood, horn and sinew. Fletched reed arrows with tanged steel points are usually used.
Barcha: spear
Nagni barcha: Javelien
Kukri: bent sword which broadens towards the point
Chakram: circular edged weapon that can be thrown. Smaller ones can be worn as bangles and used as brass knuckles.
Bagh nakh: leopard's claw, a spiked weapon worn on the hand similar to the Japanese shuko
Katara: dagger able to pierce armor
Kataar: punch daggar
And many more.
