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Printing operations began in Goa in 1556 (with the first printing press being established at the Jesuit Saint Paul's College in Old Goa), resulting in the publication of Conclusiones Philosophicas. The year 1557 saw the posthumous printing of St. Francis Xavier's Catecismo da Doutrina Christa five years after the death of its author.
The stage was finally set when Tamil types were cast in Goa by João Gonçalves (perfected by Father João de Faria in Kollam), with the assistance of Luis. In 1577 the first of the Henriques’ five books, Doctrina Christam en Lingua Malauar Tamul (Thambiran Vanakkam) was printed in Goa. The book was the first book printed with Indian type.
Bustamante was among the two most important Europeans to play a role in the history of printing in India, along with his colleague João Gonçalves, another Spaniard by birth, who is credited with casting and preparing the first printing types of an Indian script – Tamil – in Goa in 1577, with the assistance of the convert Pero Luis, which ...
To this end he arranged for the printing of books on Christian doctrine in Tamil. [4] Apart from being the first to produce a Tamil-Portuguese Dictionary, he set up the first Tamil press and printed books in Tamil script. The first such book printed in Tamil script was Thambiran Vanakkam (தம்பிரான் வணக்கம்) (1578 ...
Title page of Garcia da Orta's Colóquios.Goa, 1563. The art of printing first entered India through St. Paul's College in Goa. In a letter to St. Ignatius of Loyola, dated 30 April 1556, Father Gasper Caleza speaks of a ship carrying a printing press, setting sail from Portugal to Abyssinia (current-day Ethiopia) via Goa, with the purpose of helping missionary work.
He set up the first Tamil press and got books printed in Tamil script. The first book printed in Tamil script was "Thambiran Vanakkam" (தம்பிரான் வணக்கம்) (1578), a 16-page translation of the Portuguese "Doctrina Christam". Thereby, Tamil became the first non-European language to be printed on a printing press ...
The arrival of the first press in Goa was rejoiced at by St. Francis Xavier who had been preaching the gospel in Goa and in Tranquebar [5] since 1542. Then inexplicably, and, significantly, all presses died out in India. [6] Tamil printing seems to have stopped after 1612.
One of first Tamil newspapers. 1880 Coimbatore Kalanidhi: Tamil: Coimbatore: British India: One of first Tamil newspapers. 1881 The Tribune: English Lahore: British India: Still published. It was founded on 2 February 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan), by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising five ...