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.
2)Literacy levels. India has a literacy rate of a bit
under 70% small
pool to do the writing
That's actually quite high.
3)Different cultures. One of the few things considered
respectable in
British retirement is to research your local history
And in Indian culture?
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.
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?
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. 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.
Ec