What is Shillong Teer?

People who just heard about Shillong Teer might wonder what it is as its not really a common term. This question will not going to be asked by Shillong citizen because it's already well known, but might be asked by tourist, foreigners, new audience or by you who read this article now.

You're lucky to be here as we're going to introduce and explain in details about what is Shillong Teer. You're welcome to discover other articles on our website to learn more as we have divided the info to many parts in order to provide more details in respective topic for people who need information related to Shillong Teer. First of all, let's learn about Shillong.

Introduction to Shillong Teer Origin

Shillong was the capital of Assam during British empire in India before independence and remained after that until 1972. Once becoming the capital of state Meghalaya which was formed after 1972, it was rapidly grows and developed into a typical modern Indian town, but it still retained some of its colonial-era charm in certain parts. This city is situated at altitude of 1496m above the sea level. It remained as the capital of Assam before the formation of Meghalaya in 1974. After becoming the state capital, the place, the people and the climate, all gets united together to form an amiable atmosphere and made Shillong an ideal tourist destination of the world throughout the whole year.

Shillong Teer

Shillong is one of the most admired tourist destination in India, that is so famous for its natural beauty and sight-seeing, plus with various traditional foods, dresses, places and its popular traditional Teer game. In year 2016, the South Asian Games were also held at Guwahati and Shillong from period of 5 February to 16 February of year 2016. Compared to other games or sports, Shillong is much more favored for this Teer game where it is the most played by citizen.

The History of Shillong Teer

The Shillong Teer game was traditionally known as “Thoh Tim”. During early 20th century this Shillong Teer was in its beginner stage. People from different localities or villages gathered weekly to play archery matches game which were further grown into archery contests. After the time passed, these contests of archery developed into tournaments of archery that continue to grow. Due to this huge growth in Teer game and great earning potential, a unique system of adapting the results with requirements and the method of gambling was also discovered which was implemented in large scales.

As the gambling is prohibited in many destination of the world, this game was failed to get its recognition that it deserved but after the time goes on, this Shillong Teer game finally reach its top, started to be recognized and was registered by the State Government in year 1982. From that year, Shillong Teer game is legalized and grows rapidly until now. Nowadays, Shillong Teer game also have received online presence on the internet. This enables the people to book tickets online rather than buying it over the counter, get information about the Shillong Teer result, and in the same time making this game more recognized by the world.

How do People Grow Interest in Shillong Teer?

This Shillong Teer game has reached at highly profitable business for good income especially through the internet. Due to its cheap bidding prices, it is very affordable to the audience to watch and play gambling side by side which makes it highly attractive game for having fun and earning. Instead of just a profitable game, there are also other benefits that make it a worthy game to play. The daily busy life of the world makes people less attractive towards the athletics but thanks to the internet that made this game so popular nowadays.