Question

history of print in india

Answer 1

The art of printing first entered India through Goa on 30 April 1556

Answer 2

If the location of the earliest printing presses in India were plotted on the map, it will be found that they all bug the coast line of the Peninsula, Goa, Cochin, Pudikoil, Vypicottah and Ambadalakkad, these places along the west coast represent the sources of the Indian   “Incunabulae”.  Tranquebor, Madras, Fort William, Calcutta and Serampore, along the East Coast represent the shaping period of Indian printing. Bombay contributes its share towards the closing years of the second phase of the vigorous growth of early Indian printing.  Malayalam and Tamil are close contenders for the honour of being the first Indian Language to exploit movable type.  These were the findings of Mr. B.S.Kesavan, a noted figure in Library Education and documentation.Below we give some historical dates as found out by Mr. R.Narayanan, the noted Printing Consultant.    1579Printing at Cochin1712The Tranquebor press1751 Tranquebor printing & Publishing House, Madras1761Vepery SPCK Press1795Serampore Missionaries1809Punjabi Press, Ludhiana1817American Mission Press, Bombay1820Native School and School Book Committee, Bombay1820Bihar Lithography, Patna1822 Printing of ‘Pamcopa Khyana’ in Marathi at Courier Press, Bombay1825-26Printing in Gujarathi, Hindustani and Parsi1829 Fr. Benjamin Bailey’s first printing press at Kottayam1830Captain George Jervis Lithographic Press at Poona1830Greenway family press at Kanpur ( Lithographic Hindi Work)1830Lithography Press, Madras Presidency1831Fort. St. George Press and College, Madras1799-1833 Sarafoji Maharaja Press in Tanjore1838Gurumukhi Grammer printed at Punjabi Press1841Bahu Mahajan Litho Press to print “Prabhakar” a Marathi weekly1843‘Upadesha Chandrika” monthly, edited by Pandit Movabhat Dandekar, printed at  Mahajan press1844-48 The Delhi Oordoo Ukbar, Delhi1844-48                    1849Benaras Ukbar Press, Benaras- Benaras Ukbar printed in Nagari script1850“Dhumaketu” Weekly at Mahajan Press1851English-Punjabi Dictionary printed at Punjabi Press1861Times of India press, Bombay1866First Oriya weekly at Cuttack Printing Company1872 Karnataka State Presses1877 Sivakasi as Commercial Center of Calendar Art1890 Raja Ravi Varma established a big litho press at Malodi, near Lonovala1907Usmani Press, Madras (Urdu)1919Shahi Press, Madras (Urdu)1924First Printing Certificate Course, Madras1925 Lutheran Printing Press, Vaniyambadi1929 Majeedia Press, Madras (Urdu)1938First Diploma Course Printing at Madras