Munshi Newal Kishore
Male, Deceased Person
1836 – 1885
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Who was Munshi Newal Kishore?
Munshi Newal Kishore was a book publisher from India. He has been called Caxton of India. In 1858, at the age of 22, he founded the 'Newal Kishore Press and Book Depot' at Lucknow. This institution today is the oldest printing and publishing concern in Asia. Mirza Ghalib was one of his admirers. Munshi Newal Kishore was son of Pandit Jamuna Prasad Bhargave, a zamindar of Aligarh and was born on January 3, 1836. He died in 1885 in Delhi. The Government of India issued a postage stamp on him in his honour in 1970.
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