write briefly about print culture in bengal
write briefly about print culture in bengal
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Press came to India in the late eighteenth century.
The first to appear in Bengal was the weekly Bengal Gazette.
It was brought out by Gangadhar Bhattacharya, who was close to Rammohun Roy.
James Augustus Hickey was the editor of the Bengal Gazette,
It was a weekly magazine that described itself as ‘a commercial paper open to all, but influenced by none’.
It was a private English enterprise, proud of its independence from colonial influence, that began English printing in India.
Hickey published a lot of advertisements, including those that related to the import and sale of slaves and gossips about the Company’s senior officials in India.
He was punished by Governor General Warren Hastings.
In Bengal, an entire area – the Battala – was devoted to the printing of popular books.
Books profuse with illustrated woodcuts and coloured lithographs were circulated to homes by pedlars.
It enabled women to read books in their leisure time.
Hi
Press came to India in the late eighteenth century.
The first to appear in Bengal was the weekly Bengal Gazette.
It was brought out by Gangadhar Bhattacharya, who was close to Rammohun Roy.
James Augustus Hickey was the editor of the Bengal Gazette,
It was a weekly magazine that described itself as ‘a commercial paper open to all, but influenced by none’.
It was a private English enterprise, proud of its independence from colonial influence, that began English printing in India.
Hickey published a lot of advertisements, including those that related to the import and sale of slaves and gossips about the Company’s senior officials in India.
He was punished by Governor General Warren Hastings.
In Bengal, an entire area – the Battala – was devoted to the printing of popular books.
Books profuse with illustrated woodcuts and coloured lithographs were circulated to homes by pedlars.
It enabled women to read books in their leisure time.
