Munshi Nawal Kishore
Munshi Nawal Kishore | |
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British Indian | |
Occupation(s) | Book publisher, magazine editor |
Known for | Nawal Kishore Press |
Munshi Nawal Kishore (3 January 1836 – 19 February 1895) was a
Biography
Munshi Nawal Kishore was the second son of Munshi Jamuna Prasad Bhargava, a
On 23 November 1858, he founded a printing press known as Munshi Nawal Kishor Press. From 1859, he started publishing weekly newspaper Avadh Akhbar, also known as Oudh Akhbar.[2]
He died on 19 February 1895[3] in Delhi. His body was buried[4] instead of traditional cremation. The Government of India issued a postage stamp on him in his honour in 1970.[5]
Munshi Nawal Kishore published more than 5000 books in Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, English, Marathi, Punjabi, Pashto, Persian, Sanskrit and Urdu during 1858–1885.[6] The Ram Kumar Press and Tej Kumar Press, started by his sons, are successors to the Nawal Kishore Press.
Munshi was a member of the Indian National Congress.[7]
References
- ^ Empire of Books, An: The Naval Kishore Press and the Diffusion of the Printed Word in Colonial India, Ulrike Stark, Orient Blackswan, 1 June 2009
- ^ S2CID 201700082.
- ISBN 978-81-7020-897-6.
- ^ Burial of Munshi Newal Kishore [1]
- ^ "Munshi Newal Kishore". iStampGallery.Com. 26 January 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ^ "Rediscovering Munshi Newal Kishore, Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation SALNAQ: South Asia Library Notes & Queries, Issue_29, 29_1993_14" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 January 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
- ^ "LITHOGRAPHY ii. IN INDIA – Encyclopaedia Iranica". Encyclopædia Iranica. 15 August 2009. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
Further reading
- Stark, Ulrike (2004). "Hindi Publishing in the Heart of an Indo-Persian Cultural Metropolis : Lucknow's Newal Kishore Press (1858–1895)". In Blackburn, Stuart H.; Dalmia, Vasudha (eds.). India's Literary History: Essays on the Nineteenth Century. Orient Blackswan. ISBN 978-8-17824-056-5.
- Nurani, Amir Hasan (1995). Savāniḥ Munshī Navalkishor سوانح منشى نول كشور [On the life of Munshi Navalkishor] (in Urdu). Patna: Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library. OCLC 658143281.