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Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side).
العربية; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; Basa Bali; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца)
Photograph of Vidal taken by himself. George William Vidal (23 September 1845 – 13 October 1907) was a British lawyer who worked in the Indian Civil Services in the Bombay Presidency and contributed to natural history studies from the Konkan region, and was involved in popularizing the modern form of badminton in India and in establishing the formal rules of the game.
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The Badminton Library was published in three different formats: [1] The standard trade edition : octavo , bound in brown illustrated cloth. The deluxe edition : octavo, bound in half blue Morocco, gilt titles to the spines and bright orange boards with a gilt coat of arms to the upper board, top page edges gilt.
Whether or not the sport of badminton was re-introduced from British India or was invented during the hard winter of 1863 by the children of the eighth duke in the Great Hall (where the featherweight shuttlecock would not mar the life-size portraits of horses by John Wootton, as the tradition of the house has it), [7] it was popularised at the house, hence the sport's name.
To write about all the famous badminton players and tournaments around the world. To gather complete and accurate information for all badminton related articles. To divide the subject of badminton into appropriate subtopics, to make things easier to find. To standardize all badminton related articles. To provide a manual of style.