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History of print revolution in India????????????? |
| Answer» \tThe printing press first came to Goa with the Portuguese missionaries in the mid 16th century.\tBooks were printed in Konkani and Kanara languages.\tCatholic priests printed the first Tamil book, in 1579 at Cochin.\tBy 1710, Dutch protestant missionaries had printed 32 Tamil texts, many of them were translations of older works.\tBy 1780, James Augustus Hickey began to edit the Bengal Gazette, a weekly magazine.\tBy the close of 18th century, a number of newspapers were published by Indians too. The first to appear was the weekly ‘Bengal Gazette’ brought out by Gangadhar Bhattacharya, who was close to Rammohan Roy. | |