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.
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=E... - 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