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At the dawn of the twentieth century, Madras had emerged as one of the print capitals of India and the centre for Telugu and Tamil printing. A large number of printing presses were owned by Indians who offered a similar range of services. How did Ananda Press stand out?
Hussonally Abdullaly thrived In the face of stiff competition from the British presses and his own fellow, the Dawoodi Bohras.
Burma has a long record of its ancient history and a living tradition where old texts were still relevant. A visit to one of the largest printing presses in Rangoon in 1910 illustrates how these texts were transitioning from manuscript to print.
How did one man single-handedly build a paper-to-print conglomerate, the largest in colonial Bombay, by the end of the First World War? The career of Hussonally Abdoolally provides the answers
MalayPeninsula-cuylenburg-1898 $15,500.00 Title A Map of the Malay Peninsula Compiled by and Published for The Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Singapore. 1898 (dated) 1 : 506880 Description One of the most important 19th-century maps of the Malay Peninsula to appear on the market in recent decades, this is the definitive large-scale 1898 masterplan created by and for the colonial administration of British Malaya. This chromolithograph map captures a critical moment in Malay history where Britain was beginning to consolidate its suzerainty over the resource-r...