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{{dyktalk|3 October|2005|entry=...that the '''[[Bombay Quadrangular]]''' [[cricket]] tournament originated in an [[1877]] game to foster interracial harmony, but was abandoned in [[1946]] over fears that its racial basis threatened [[Indian Independence Movement|Indian independence]]?}}

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1. About the English Test players who took part in this tournament. [[Arthur Hill (cricketer)|Arthur Hill]] hit what is the first fc 100 on Indian soil. [[Wilfred Rhodes]] did incredibly well in the early 1920s. [[George Herbert Hirst]], [[Duleep]] and [[Harold Larwood]] are others that I can think of. [[User:Tintin1107|Tintin]] 13:31, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

== Race? ==

Hindu iS not a race, neither iS MuSlim or ParSi, European iSnt either, though white iS, Stop uSing termS like inter racial when none of them iS a race

:What's with the capital S? Anyway, your basic point is correct. I've changed some references to reflect this, though left others where it seemed that race ''was'' the main issue. The article on [[communalism (South Asia)]], which I've linked to in the article, could do with some expansion, but I'm not qualified to do so accurately. --[[User:OpenToppedBus|OpenToppedBus]] - [[User talk:OpenToppedBus|Talk to the driver]] 15:04, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

::Good call, thanks for making that change. -[[User:Dmmaus|dmmaus]] 23:16, 6 October 2005 (UTC)