On 02/10/2007, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
geni wrote:
On 01/10/2007, Ray Saintonge
<saintonge(a)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=…
- 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).
--
geni