Explain the earliest print of India.
The printing press first came to Goa with Portuguese missionaries in the mid-sixteenth century.
(i)Jesuit priests learnt Konkani and printed several tracts. By 1674, about 50 books had been printed in the Konkani and in Kanara languages.
(ii)Catholic priests printed the first Tamil book in 1579 at Cochin, and in 1713 the first Malayalam book was printed by them.
(iii)By 1710, Dutch Protestant missionaries had printed 32 Tamil texts, many of them translations of older works.