Printing in Calcutta to 1800
Author: Graham Shaw
Publisher: London : Bibliographical Society ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 272
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Author: Graham Shaw
Publisher: London : Bibliographical Society ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tapti Roy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2018-11-13
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0429673515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reconstructs the history of print and publishing in colonial Bengal by tracing the unexpected journey of Bharat Chandra’s Bidyasundar, the first book published by a Bengali entrepreneur. The introduction of printing technology by the British in Bengal expanded the scope of publication and consumption of books significantly. This book looks at the developments and the parallel publishing initiatives of that time. It examines local enterprises in colonial Bengal engaged in producing and selling books and explores the ways in which they charted out a cultural space in the 19th century. The work sheds fresh light on book production and the culture of print, and narrates the processes behind the printing of books to understand the multi-layered literary practices they sustained. A valuable addition to the history of publishing in India, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of South Asian and Indian history, Bengali literature, media and cultural studies, and print and publishing studies. It will also appeal to those interested in the history of Bengal and the Bengali diaspora.
Author: Abhijit Gupta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-11-11
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 1108985327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study focuses on the spread of print in colonial India towards the middle and end of the nineteenth century. Till the first half of the century, much of the print production in the subcontinent emanated from presidency cities such as Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, along with centres of missionary production such as Serampore. But with the growing socialization of print and the entry of local entrepreneurs into the field, print began to spread from the metropole to the provinces, from large cities to mofussil towns. This Element will look at this phenomenon in eastern India, and survey how printing spread from Calcutta to centres such as Hooghly-Chinsurah, Murshidabad, Burdwan, Rangpur etc. The study will particularly consider the rise of periodicals and newspapers in the mofussil, and asses their contribution to a nascent public sphere.
Author: Stuart H. Blackburn
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9788178241494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dennis E Rhodes
Publisher: BRILL
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Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9004535802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is published as part of the series The Spread of Printing, a history of printing outside Continental Europe and Great Britain. The print edition is available as a set of eleven volumes (9789063000257).
Author: Ezra Greenspan
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2003-09-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780271023304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBook History is the annual journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. (SHARP). Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination, and the reception of script and print. Book History publishes research on the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing, printing, the book arts, publishing, the book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literacy education, reading habits, and reader response.
Author: Nigel Little
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 131731459X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Duane is most famous as the editor of "The Aurora", the Philadelphia-based paper which vigorously supported Thomas Jefferson in his 1800 presidential election campaign. Based on archival research, this biography of Duane studies his American career in light of his formative years in Ireland, England and India.
Author: Ritwik
Publisher: Joydhak Prakashan
Published: 2024-08-19
Total Pages: 354
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistory of Bengali Advertisements in Print media till 1950 with analytical comments
Author: Francesca Orsini
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1351888315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe History of the Book in South Asia covers not only the various modern states that make up South Asia today but also a multitude of languages and scripts. For centuries it was manuscripts that dominated book production and circulation, and printing technology only began to make an impact in the late eighteenth century. Print flourished in the colonial period and in particular lithographic printing proved particularly popular in South Asia both because it was economical and because it enabled multi-script printing. There are now vibrant publishing cultures in the nation states of South Asia, and the essays in this volume cover the whole range from palm-leaf manuscripts to contemporary print culture.
Author: Megan Eaton Robb
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-10-19
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0190089393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn early twentieth century British India, prior to the arrival of digital medias and after the rise of nationalist political movements, a small-town paper from the margins of society became a key player in Urdu journalism. Published in the isolated market town of Bijnor, Madinah grew to hold influence across North India and the Punjab while navigating complex issues of religious and political identity. In Print and the Urdu Public, Megan Robb uses the previously unexamined perspective of the Madinah to consider Urdu print publics and urban life in South Asia. Through a discursive and material analysis of Madinah, the book explores how Muslims who had settled in ancestral qasbahs, or small towns, used newspapers to facilitate a new public consciousness. The book demonstrates how Madinah connected the Urdu newspaper conversation both explicitly and implicitly with Muslim identity and delineated the boundaries of a Muslim public conversation in a way that emphasized rootedness to local politics and small urban spaces. The case study of this influential but understudied newspaper reveals how a network of journalists with substantial ties to qasbahs produced a discourse self-consciously alternative to the Western-influenced, secularized cities. Megan Robb augments the analysis with evidence from contemporary Urdu, English, and Hindi papers, government records, private diaries, private library holdings, ethnographic interviews, and training materials for newspaper printers. This thoroughly researched volume recovers the erasure of qasbah voices and proclaims the importance of space and time in definitions of the public sphere in South Asia. Print and the Urdu Public demonstrates how an Urdu newspaper published from the margins became central to the Muslim public constituted in the first half of the twentieth century.