The Internet Archive now hosts one of the Public Library very largest The Public collections of materials by and about India. Let me tell you about a few of these:
A collection of books mirrored from the Internet in over 100 languages. Many of those books we archived are no longer available in their original locations? so we are thrilled that the Internet Archive became a home for these valuable materials. Some of the scans are old? some of the metadata and quality control is not so good? but the materials are unique and our 425?121 texts have received over 62 million views.
Because the metadata on the Public Library
Public Library of India had been entered in Roman characters? that whatsapp lead made the collection much less useful for non-Roman scripts? a team of Wikipedians led by my friend Arjuna Rao Chavala painstakingly reentered the titles and creators for 17?655 books in Telugu into the original script? making the books findable for those that speak those languages. That effort is now being replicated for other languages? such as Kannada and Tamil.
One of my personal passions has been the Hind Swaraj the code is now working collection? which is devote to the fight for Indian independence.
The collection features 595 works
About Gandhi Ji including all 100 volumes of his years business up ago Complete Works? as well as the complete works of Nehru? Ambedkar? and substantial collections of texts and audio by figures such as Rabindranath Tagore? Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan? Subhas Chandra Bose? and Sardar Patel.
Public Resource has been honore to work closely with the Indian Academy of Sciences? with whom we have a formal Memorandum of Cooperation. As part of that effort? we have digitized all the Indian Academy’s books? and maintain an extensive collection of science resources of India.