The first President of Indian Hockey Colonel Bruce Turnbull

The Scot in the Sikh Pioneers

By Dil Bahra


First president of IHF, Col Bruce Turnbull

It was a long mystery. Scarcely anybody knew of Col Bruce Turnbull, the first President of the newly formed Indian Hockey Federation (IHF). The formation of the IHF took place 95 years ago and was a turning point in the history of Indian Olympic Movement. Hockey historian and London based Dil Bahra takes us to unknown territory with his usual flair of prose, precise data, pathbreaking information and hitherto unseen images he painstakingly collected during his long research journey.