The grassroots push to digitize India’s most precious documents
The collection is an effort to make up for the scarcity of
library resources in India. There are about 50,000 public-funded libraries in
this country of over 1.4 billion people, according to the Raja Rammohun Roy
Library Foundation, a group established by the Indian government to promote the
public-library movement there. Village and tribal libraries may contain just a
few thousand books, compared with a median 77,000 books in each state’s central
library and 24,000 in every district library, according to a 2018 report by the
foundation. Some libraries have lost their collections to fire. A number of
books have been ruined by neglect. Others have gone missing.
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