Bengaluru non-profit digitizes 1.75 lakh rare books, making knowledge freely accessible

A Bengaluru-based non-profit, Servants of Knowledge (SoK), has digitized 1.75 lakh rare books, gazettes, and manuscripts. The initiative, founded in 2018, aims to make knowledge freely accessible by scanning and digitizing materials from various institutions. SoK has hosted 1.75 lakh books and manuscripts on the Internet Archive, including 1,399 works from Gandhi Bhavan Bengaluru. The group also digitized 4,300 MPhil and PhD theses submitted to Kannada University, Hampi.