On 02/10/2007, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
geni wrote:
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.
The lack of such infrastructure suggests that we should be more flexible.
You want to weaken [[WP:V]]?
2)Literacy levels. India has a literacy rate of a bit under 70% small pool to do the writing
That's actually quite high.
Not compared to say Europe or old soviet countries
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.
Either national library still has a limitation on how many people can go there to use it at any one time. This favours the residents of either capital.
UK is smaller so London tends to be more reachable (and the various train companies seem deterimed to send you through it regardless of real intent.
5)Systemic bias. [[WP:V]] [[WP:RS]] [[WP:BLP]] yeah all kinda written assuming a western setup in terms of documentation.
How many Indians participated in writing those?
I'm not aware of any.
From the site of an Indian bookstore that I have used: https://www.alltimebooks.com/shop/index.php?searchstring=Cricket&email=E...
- 116 books about cricket! There must be at least one that fills your
criteria.
For a country the size of India with cricket as popular as it is?
Football only gave me 27 books, but then India does not have much of a football reputation. I got 78 hits for "railway", but there are other related search words that could give further hits.
But even local UK libraries seem to have that many railway books (and then about 3 token ones on canals although that is mostly due to canals falling into the local history trap).