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An Empire of Books:

The Naval Kishore Press and the Diffusion of the Printed Word in Colonial India
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Permanent Black, Nov 1, 2007 - Publishers and publishing - 586 pages

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Contents

Towards a History of the Book
4
Literacy Readership and Consumption
12
Indigenous Responses to Print
21
Copyright

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Ulrike Stark (Dr. phil.)
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Agra Allahabad Appendix IV contd Arabic Author/Translator Avadh Avadh Akhbar Bayly Benares Bengal Bhargava Brajbhasha British cAbdul Calcutta cAli calligraphers century classics colonial commercial publishing contemporary copies Delhi devotional poetry devotional Dhusar drmaa early edition editor English firm's genres Ghalib Ghulam Hindi and Urdu Hindi commentary Hindi literature Hindu Husain important Indian publishers indigenous Islamic issued Kanpur Kayastha Kishore's Lahore language literary lithographic Lucknow Maulvi medicine Mirza modern Muhammad Munshi Naval Kishore Muslim Nagari Naval Kishore newspaper nineteenth-century NKP's North Indian Nurani NWP&Oudh official Oudh Pandit paper Parshad patronage Persian poetic poetry devotional poetry poetry poetry poetry poets popular print culture printing press prose publisher's publishing house Punjab Purana qissa Qur'an Ramayan readers readership religious reprint Sahib Sanskrit satik Sayyid Sayyid Ahmad scholars Shiva Shiva Prasad Singh social textbooks texts titles tradition Tulsidas Urdu translation Urdu trs vernacular

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TitleAn Empire of Books: The Naval Kishore Press and the Diffusion of the Printed Word in Colonial India
AuthorUlrike Stark (Dr. phil.)
PublisherPermanent Black, 2007
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized26 Aug 2009
ISBN817824196X, 9788178241968
Length586 pages
  
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