One of the earliest known surviving photographs of badminton in India, the back inscribed in pencil KALADGI BADMINTON COURT 1875, with list of sitters

One of the earliest known surviving photographs of badminton in India, the back inscribed in pencil KALADGI BADMINTON COURT 1875, with list of sitters ''Alice, Ida, Father, Mother, H. Kinely (Police Superintendent), Mr Tagore (Judge), Mr Lawson (Assistant Collector), Mr Reid (1st Assistant Collector), Dr. F.N. Barber (Civil Service Surgeon I.M.S.), Mrs Barber'', the Tagore family one of the most eminent and important in India, a 4 3/8 by 6 1/2in. photograph, important to the very early history of badminton, mounted in Perspex display frame Ida's face appears to have been deliberately rubbed out, no doubt there is an intriguing backstory to why this should be so! Kaladgi, in the Bagalkot District of Karnataka State, was the district H.Q. of the British Army between 1864 and 1884. The game of badminton was taken by British Army Officers to India where the first laws were drawn up in Poona in the mid-1870s.