On 01/10/2007, Angus McLellan angusmclellan@gmail.com wrote:
There are 22 million books in the National Library of India.
2,270,954. 2.2 million
http://www.nlindia.org/useful_info.html
It helps when you release they put the commas in funny places
Over 25% are written in Indian languages. The library receives copies of 902 newspapers and 17000-odd periodicals, and has over a million volumes of bound periodicals. [ Source http://www.nlindia.org ]
118K not over 1 million
And do the states have state libraries with manuscript and periodical holdings? Well, Andhra Pradesh does, even if the library doesn't yet have a website, so quite probably they all do.
Anyway, you were saying?
Angus
2.2 million is less than a 10th of the British library holdings. While technically the British library covers a much larger land area (all the imperial records and the like) there is still a concentration on subjects within the UK (total Indian records cover only 300K documents http://www.bl.uk/collections/orientaloffice.html )