On 01/10/2007, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
What makes you think that those books don't already exist?
1)Lack of publishing infrastructure. In say the UK something will have been published on pretty much any human settlement because it is easy to do.
2)Literacy levels. India has a literacy rate of a bit under 70% small pool to do the writing
3)Different cultures. One of the few things considered respectable in British retirement is to research your local history
4)Raw numbers. British libiary has at 25 million books one book per 2.4 people in Britain (and a bit over 2 items per person). Now a lot of that will be international but also suggests a decent coverage of UK topics. National library of India has about 2 million books. 1 book per 560 people.
5)Systemic bias. [[WP:V]] [[WP:RS]] [[WP:BLP]] yeah all kinda written assuming a western setup in terms of documentation.