When was the Indian Hockey Federation established?

Correct — A. The Indian Hockey Federation was incorporated in 1925 and became the body that governed Indian hockey through its golden age.

Within three years India played its first Olympics, at Amsterdam in 1928, and won gold. That was the first of six consecutive Olympic hockey golds, running to Melbourne in 1956.

Anchor the founding year to that run and the three later dates offered here become impossible.

Why the others are wrong

• (b)
  1945 — 1945 is two decades late. India had already taken Olympic hockey gold in 1928, 1932 and 1936, which no country does without a national federation to select and send the team.
• (c)
  1935 — 1935 falls after the 1928 and 1932 golds. A federation cannot postdate the Olympic teams it entered.
• (d)
  1955 — 1955 is later still, one year before the 1956 Melbourne gold that completed the run of six. The body behind those teams was already three decades old.

The Indian Hockey Federation was the national governing body from 1925, affiliated to the International Hockey Federation (FIH), and it ran the teams of India's dominant era.

It was dissolved in 2008, and Hockey India is the recognised national federation today.

SSC's sports questions usually turn on one of three hooks: the year a body was founded, where an institution is located, or which award or trophy attaches to a sport.

Key facts

• The Indian Hockey Federation was incorporated in 1925.
• India's Olympic hockey debut came at Amsterdam in 1928, where it won gold.
• India won six consecutive Olympic hockey gold medals from 1928 to 1956.
• The Indian Hockey Federation was dissolved in 2008.
• Hockey India is the national federation recognised today.

Common traps

• Confusing the federation's founding year, 1925, with India's first Olympic appearance in 1928.
• Confusing the Indian Hockey Federation with Hockey India, the body that replaced it.

No directly related past PYQ was found.