Modern History PYQ 135 of 636 · Development of Press in Modern India

Who first brought the printing press to India in the mid-sixteenth century?

  1. ADutch textile merchant
  2. BBritish merchant
  3. CPortuguese missionary
  4. DArabic manuscript writer

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Correct answer: (c) Portuguese missionary

Explanation

In the mid-sixteenth century, the printing press was first brought to India by Portuguese Jesuit missionaries to Goa.

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