Digitization team asks libraries to help find missing Indian district handbooks

paulnovosad · x · 2026-11-09

A fragment of Paul Novosad's thread: the team invites libraries holding district census handbooks to check their catalogs against the project's district list and report missing areas, or simply send their lists for comparison. The goal is to put the economic history of independent India into the hands of the public.

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