Munshi
Nawal Kishore (03 January 1836 – 19 February 1895) was a book publisher
from India. He has been called Caxton of India. In 1858, at the age of
22, he founded the Nawal Kishore Press at Lucknow. This institution
today is the oldest printing and publishing concern in Asia.Mirza Ghalib
was one of his admirers.
Munshi Nawal Kishore was the second
son of Munshi Jamuna Prasad Bhargava, a zamindar of Aligarh, and was
born on 3 January 1836. At the age of six, he was admitted in a local
school (maktab) to learn Arabic and Persian. At the age on 10, he was
admitted in Agra College, but he never completed his education there for
an unknown reason. During this time, he developed his interest in
journalistic writing, and issued a short-lived weekly paper
Safeer-e-Agra. He briefly served as an assistant editor and editor of
Koh-i-Noor, a magazine of Koh-i-Noor Press owned by Munshi Harsukh Roy.
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.
He died on 19 February 1895 in
Delhi. His body was buriedinstead of traditional cremation. The
Government of India issued a postage stamp on him in his honour in 1970.
Munshi
Nawal Kishore published more than 5000 books in Arabic, Bengali, Hindi,
English, Marathi, Punjabi, Pashto, Persian, Sanskrit and Urdu during
1858–1885.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
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