Queen's Baton Relay: India in pictures

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The Queen's Baton arrives amid a media scrum in New Delhi.
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The Queen's Baton arrives amid a media scrum in New Delhi.

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Mark Beaumont joins the Queen's Baton Relay as it reaches Agra in northern India, home of one of the wonders of the world, the Taj Mahal.

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Kushti wrestling is a rigorous discipline that has produced a host of top athletes. The wrestlers belong to gyms or wrestling schools called akharas.

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Mark Beaumont joins the wrestlers and has to quickly find his feet in the akhara.

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The men have been training as young as the age of seven and moved to these akharas from villages several hundred miles away.

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The 3000 year-old wrestling tradition has seen plenty of success, the prizes from the akhara are left to Hanuman, the god of all wrestlers