where was the game of badminton first played
Badminton The game may have originally developed among expatriate officers in British India,[7] where it was very popular by the 1870s.[5] Ball badminton, a form of the game played with a wool ball instead of a shuttlecock, was being played in Thanjavur as early as the 1850s[8] and was at first played interchangeably with badminton by the British, the woollen ball being preferred in windy or wet weather.