Write a short note on how printing press came to india
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printing press first come to Goa with Portuguese missionaries in the mid - sixteenth century. Jesuit priest s learnt Konkani and printed several tracts . By 1674, about 50 books had been printed in the Konkani and in Kanara languages.The English language press did not grow in India till quite late even though the English East India company began to import presses from late seventeenth century.
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Printing came to India serendipitously. In 1556, a Portuguese ship was put into Goa for victualling. Aboard were 14 Jesuits bound for Abyssinia (today’s Ethiopia) and a printing press. One of them, Joao de Bustamente, a Spaniard, was a Printer. He was accompanied by an assistant of Indian origin. The clergy in Goa felt their need for a printing press was greater than Abyssinia’s and, so requested the Governor-General to make the press available to them..The press was taken over and sent with Bustaments to the College of St. Paul, a seminary that still exists in Goa.
The press was used by the Christian missionaries for printing Biblical propaganda material.