write about the development of printing press in Bengal from the 19th century??? plz answer .
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James Augustus Hicky was initially a trader in ships’ cargoes. In 1775-6 he met with heavy losses and was imprisoned for debt. It is difficult to reconstruct how exactly he came by the two thousand rupees that was required to construct the wooden press with which he began operations. 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. He was often given commissions which he did not complete or was never paid in full for. Hicky was notorious for his clashes with authority. January 1780 marked the publication of the first Indian newspaper in any language, the weekly Hicky's Bengal Gazette.
Around 1806–07, a Hindu called Babu Ram established a printing machine for the first time, in Devanagari type, at Kidderpore, Calcutta, for publishing Sanskrit books. Thomas Roebuck in The Annals of the College of Fort William[6] talks about the Lord Minto's lecture at Fort William College on 27 February 1808: "A printing press has been established by learned Hindoos, furnished with complete founts of improved Nagree types of different sizes, for the printing of books in the Sunskrit language. This press has been encouraged by the College to undertake an edition of the best Sunskrit Dictionaries, and a compilation of the Sunskrit rules of Grammar..
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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.
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