Question

Give an account of the growth of Bengali printing press from the middle of the 19th century? ​

Answer 1

In 1777, he assembled the earliest known Calcutta press and in the same year he was engaged by the East India Company to print their military bills and batta forms. ... January 1780 marked the publication of the first Indian newspaper in any language, the weekly Hicky's Bengal Gazette.

Answer 2

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Printing was introduced in Bengal in the late 18th century but took off significantly from the early 19th century, when British evangelical missionaries set up a printing press called Baptist Mission Press in 1800 in purposes for spreading the Christian world. Their resources were soon led by the East India Company for producing textbooks to educate young novices freshly from Britain, in Indian languages, customs. Soon after the introduction of printing press in Bengal, members of the native community began to participate in the business of selling, producing, buying, acquiring and consuming books.