An Empire of Books: The Naval Kishore Press and the Diffusion of the Printed Word in Colonial India

Abdul Agra Allahabad Appendix IV contd Arabic Avadh Akhbar Bayly Benares Bengal Bhargava bhāṣā Brajbhasha British Calcutta calligraphers classics colonial commercial publishing contemporary copies Delhi devotional poetry Dhusar early edition editor English firm's Fort William College genres Ghalib Ghulam Hindi and Urdu Hindi commentary Hindi literature Hindu House of Naval Husain important Indian publishers indigenous Islamic issued Kanpur Kayastha Kishore Press Kishore's Lahore language large number literary lithographic Lucknow Maulvi medicine Mirza modern Muhammad Munshi Naval Kishore Muslim Nagari Naval Kishore Nazir newspaper nineteenth century NKP's North Indian Nurani NWP&Oudh official Oudh Pandit paper Parshad patronage Persian poetic poets popular print culture printing press prose publisher's publishing house Punjab Purāņa Qur'an Rāmāyan readers readership religion religious reprint Sahib Sanskrit satīk Sayyid Sayyid Ahmad scholars Shiva Singh social textbooks texts titles tradition Tulsidas Urdū Urdu translation Urdu trs vernacular