An exciting new generation of print historians has emerged as we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century. Bristling with new idea...
Traversing the overlapping print worlds of Portuguese, Konkani and English, Rochelle Pinto has been studying how colonialism and its afterma...
Abhijit Gupta is one of the leading practitioners of book history in twenty-first century India. He looks back at the work done in the past ...
The story of a French librarian who investigated the opening of a new chapter of printing in eighteenth century India and its European conne...
How a librarian from pre-independence India recast himself as print historian
How a career in type design led to the making of a type historian
One of the leading print historians of India, A R Venkatachalapathy has focussed on the print culture associated with the Tamil language and...
Print may have reached the shores of India accidentally in 1556 (the original destination of the printing press was Ethiopia); it may have h...
When a young Graham Shaw, recently graduated (with specialization in Sanskrit and Hindi) from the School of Oriental and African Studies at ...