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Impressions of the past: print culture and typography in South Asia
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Foreword — Swapan Chakravorty
Introduction
An eventful research journey
A ‘national history’ of the book in India
Is it meaningful? What needs to happen?
Introduction
An eventful research journey
A ‘national history’ of the book in India
Is it meaningful? What needs to happen?
Part I — Early printing: general overviews
- • A revised outline of early South Asian printing
- • The beginnings of government and commercial printing in India
- • Ambalacatta, Duverdier and Halhed: some notes on early printing
- • Examples of Indian scripts in Purchas his pilgrimes
Part II — Western India
- • The beginning of printing at Bombay
- • The printer of the first book published in Bombay
- • The Tanjore Aesop in the context of early Marathi printing
Part III — South India and Sri Lanka
- • Scaliger’s copy of an early Tamil catechism
- • A ‘lost’ work of Henrique Henriques: the Tamil confessionary of 1580
- • The Copenhagen copy of Henrique’s Flos Sanctorum
- • An early Madras almanac
- • Printing at Mangalore and Tellicherry by the Basel Mission
- • Printing by the British in Sri Lanka at the end of the 18th century
Part IV — Northern India
- • The evolution of types in the Devanagari script
- • The first printing press in the Punjab
- • Matba‘a in Muslim India
- • Lithography vs letterpress in India
Part V — East India and Bangladesh
- • The birth of Calcutta printing
- • Some facets of eighteenth-century Bengali printing
- • Printing interest in the British Library’s Halhed Bengali manuscripts
- • The first Calcutta almanac
- • Calcutta woodcuts in OMPB
- • A letter from James Augustus Hicky
- • The Cuttack Mission Press and early Oriya printing
- • The first Bengali book printed in Bangladesh
- • Printing and publishing in Dhaka
Postscript
An update to the South Asia and Burma Retrospective Bibliography (SABREB) Stage 1: 1556–1800
Afterword — Fiona Ross
An update to the South Asia and Burma Retrospective Bibliography (SABREB) Stage 1: 1556–1800
Afterword — Fiona Ross
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