Munshi Newal Kishore

Munshi Newal Kishore (3 January 1836 — 19 February 1895) was a book publisher from India. He has been called Caxton of India. In 1858, at the age of 22, he founded the 'Newal Kishore Press and Book Depot' at Lucknow. This institution today is the oldest printing and publishing concern in Asia.[1] Mirza Ghalib was one of his admirers. Munshi Newal Kishore was son of Pandit Jamuna Prasad Bhargave, a zamindar of Aligarh, and was born on January 3, 1836. He died in 1885 in Delhi. The Government of India issued a postage stamp on him in his honour in 1970.[2]

Munshi Newal Kishore published more than 5000 books in Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, English, Marathi, Punjabi, Pashto, Persian, Sanskrit and Urdu during 1858–1885.[3] The Ram Kumar Press and Tej Kumar Press, started by his sons, are successors to the Newal Kishore Press.

Munshi Newal Kishore is the oldest publication of India. They were much admired by noted scholars of all languages from all parts of India. Allama Sayyid Shamsullah Qadri also had many of his works published through Munshi Newal Kishore [4]

References

  1. ↑ Empire of Books, An: The Naval Kishore Press and the Diffusion of the Printed Word in Colonial India, Ulrike Stark, Orient Blackswan, June 1, 2009
  2. ↑ stamp on Munshi Newal Kishore
  3. ↑ Rediscovering Munshi Newal Kishore, Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation SALNAQ: South Asia Library Notes & Queries, Issue_29, 29_1993_14
  4. ↑ "1925 Tareekh Zuban Urdu Yaani Urdu-E-Qadeem".

Further reading

  • Haider, Syed Jalaluddin (January 1981). "Munshi Nawal Kishore (1836—1895) Mirror of Urdu Printing in British India". Libri. 31 (1): 227–237. doi:10.1515/libr.1981.31.1.227.
  • Stark, Ulrike (2004). "Hindi Publishing in the Heart of an Indo-Persian Cultural Metropolis". In Blackburn, Stuart H.; Dalmia, Vasudha. India's Literary History: Essays on the Nineteenth Century. Orient Blackswan. ISBN 978-8-17824-056-5.
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