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'''Latifi Press''' was founded in 1933 in [[Delhi]] by Abdul Latif Khan. It printed several important publications for the [[All-India Muslim League|Muslim League]] and most notably, first issue of [[Dawn (newspaper)|''Dawn'']] newspaper,<ref>{{Cite book|title=The All-India Muslim league, Karachi session, December, 1943. Presidential address by ... M.A. Jinnah.|last=Jinnah|first=Mahomed Ali|date=1943|publisher=Latifi Press|location=Delhi|language=en|oclc=26406992}}</ref> the mouth piece of Muslim League and edited by [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]], was printed here on 12 October 1942.<ref name="dawn">{{cite book |last1=Jinnah |first1=Mahomed Ali |title= Plain Mr. Jinnah |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WJYBAAAAMAAJ&q=Latifi |access-date=10 October 2012 |volume=1 |year=1976 |publisher=Royal Book co. |page=236 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/lede/for-the-record-pakistani-newspaper|title=The forgotten Delhi home of a historic Pakistani newspaper|last=Inani|first=Rohit|website=The Caravan|language=en|access-date=2019-09-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://epaper.dawn.com/DetailImage.php?StoryImage=09_11_2017_710_003|title=Setting up the Muslim mouthpiece {{!}} ePaper {{!}} DAWN.COM|website=epaper.dawn.com|access-date=2019-09-23}}</ref> The Press was partly burnt during the tumultuous partition of [[India]] into [[Names of India#Bharat|Bharat]] and [[Pakistan]] in 1947, and many of the machines were sold off mainly to Sanghites.<ref name="sangh">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BaYQAQAAIAAJ |title=A critical analysis of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh |author=Govind Sahai |publisher=Naya Hindustan Press |page=49|year=1956 }}</ref> Abdul Latif Khan subsequently migrated to Pakistan with his family in 1948.<br />
Among the notable publications printed at Latifi press were "[[The Illustrated Weekly of India]]", works by Khawaja Hasan Nizami, S. M. Hussain<ref name="hussain">{{cite web |title=Poetry |url=http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/arabic/Poetry.htm |publisher=Arabic Department University of Pennsylvania |location=Pennsylvania |access-date=10 October 2012 }}</ref> [[Zeki Velidi Togan]],<ref>{{cite journal |journal= The Geographical Journal|volume= 103|issue= 6|pages= 284–285|publisher=JSTOR |jstor= 1789622|author1= R. B. S|title= Reviewed work: Biruni's Picture of the World, A. Zeki Validi Togan|doi= 10.2307/1789622|year= 1944}}</ref> and Quranic Translations<ref name="catalogue">{{cite web |title=Catalogue |url=http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/RR3Y5ASKCDU3DDGYIY6J17697UP3Y7K8BMA85CATTDF6KQ2YHN-63409?func=full-set-set&set_number=092302&set_entry=000001&format=999 |publisher=catalogue.bl.uk }}</ref><br />
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