Question

why did gandhi condemn the pentangular tournament

Answer 1

Mahatma Gandhi condemned the Pentangular Tournament.
Reasons -
1. Pentangular Tournament was colonial. India' s greatest and most famous first class cricket tournament that did not represent regions as today but religious communities.The tournament was initially called Quadrangular.Later it became   Pentangular when a fifth  team was added.
2.The Europeans , the Parsis , the Hindus, the Muslims , and the 5th team the rest took part in the  Pentangular tournament. Mahatma Gandhi condemned  the Pentangular Tournament because it was a competition based on communal and racial lives.
3.The competition aimed at dividing India on basis on religious lines.
4.It was working contrary to the nationalist forces who were trying to unite India's diverse population.
5.It was trying to create a wedge between different communities and weakening the national movement.

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Answer 2

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(i) Mahatma Gandhi condemned the Pentangular as a community divisive competition that was out of place in a time when nationalists were trying to unite India's diverse population.

(ii) The colonial state and its divisive conception of India was the rock on which the Pentangular was built. It was a colonial tournament and it died with the Raj.