His grandfather, Shiv Charan Guha, patronized Pehlwani and is credited with popularizing the sport in Bengal.
[2] Ambika then travelled throughout British India learning different wrestling and weight lifting tricks.
Khetu babu's nephew, Jatindra Charan Goho, went on to become an accomplished wrestler who became the first Asian to win the World Light Heavyweight Championship in the United States in 1921.
The akhara culture subsequently flourished in Bengal and the Bengali Hindu elite were drawn into it.
Hundreds of akharas began to proliferate in the nooks and crannies of Bengal, some of which later became the breeding ground of revolutionary nationalist activities.