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Impressions of the past: print culture and typography in South Asia

 Graham Shaw



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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?

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

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Impressions of the past: print culture and typography in South Asia

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