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For India's most famous female boxer, a fight against prejudice

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Published Sun, Dec 28, 2014 · 09:50 PM

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    New Delhi

    MANGTE Chungneijang Mary Kom, the most celebrated female boxer in India, grew up fighting.

    She fought convention as the eldest child of a landless farmer in the fractious northeastern state of Manipur, where she drove steer across rice fields - work that boys in the village let her know, derisively, belonged to men.

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