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- 1 2 3 "Sports persons who brought laurels to the district include the Saini sisters (hockey) who played at the international level. Rupa Saini was awarded Arjuna Award and Prema Saini was decorated with Maharaja Ranjit Singh Award." Punjab district gazetteers, Volume 13, pp 473, Controller of Print. and Stationery, 1970
- 1 2 3 "At one time, the Saini sisters dominated women's hockey in India and this can be gauged from the fact that three of them— Rupa, Krishna and Prema- turned out for the country in a Test series against Japan in 1970" Olympians relive the peaks and the troughs, Ravi Dhaliwal, Sunday, 25 November 2001 , The Tribune,
- ↑ Avinash Singh, Fierce struggle ahead in Madrid, Sportsweek, 3 September 1978, pp 27-29
- ↑ Rupa Kumari Saini at Sports Reference
- ↑ "India women's hockey team at Olympics: A look back". Olympics.com. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
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