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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Medical Hall Press''' was a publishing house based in [[Varanasi|Benares]], [[India]] in the nineteenth century, during which it was the city's foremost press.<ref name ="orsini">{{cite web |last1=Orsini |first1=Francesca |title=Pandits, Printers and Others: Publishing in nineteenth-century Benares |url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/31510/ |publisher=Permanent Black |pages=103–138 |language=en |date=26 June 2004}}</ref> It published Sanskrit philosophical literature<ref>{{cite web |title=Shri Narayan Kavyam 1897 Medical Hall Press Kashi |url=https://archive.org/details/ShriNarayanKavyam1897MedicalHallPressKashi/page/n75/mode/2up}}</ref> and plays, including [[Jayadeva]]'s ''Prasannaraghava'' and [[Rajashekhara (Sanskrit poet)|Rajashekhara]]'s ''Balaramayana''.<ref name="orsini"/> It also published Hindi writer [[Premchand]]'s now-lost novel 1907 ''Kishna''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gupta |first1=Prakash Chandra |title=Prem Chand |date=2010 |publisher=Sahitya Akad |location=New Delhi |isbn=9788126024285 |edition=Repr}}</ref> Its secondary literature includes reference material like textbooks in Hindi and English, which were translated to Urdu,<ref name ="orsini"/><ref>{{cite web |title=All writings of Medical Hall Press, Banaras |url=https://www.rekhta.org/publishers/medical-hall-press-banaras/all |website=Rekhta |language=en}}</ref> as well as dictionaries. The press also published missionary literature<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lorbeer |first1=H. |title=Memoirs of Rev. W. Ziemann: founder and missionary of the Ghazipur Mission |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008407169 |publisher=Medical Hall Press |date=1882}}</ref> as well as colonial photography<ref name ="photos"/> and scholarship, including [[Frederic Growse]]'s ''[[Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District]].'' <br />
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The press had fonts for various scripts, including [[Devanagari]], [[Latin script]], [[Arabic script|Arabic]], and [[Urdu alphabet|Urdu]].<ref> Stark, Ulrike (1998). 'Inside a nineteenth-century publishing house: The Newal Kishore Press in Lucknow as a new kind of literary and intellectual centre', unpubl. paper, presented at the 15th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Prague, Sept 1998. cited in Pandits and Printers </ref><br />
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Medical Hall Press, founded by E.J. Lazarus in 1854,<ref name = "sahani">{{cite web |last1=Sahani |first1=Santosh Kumar |title=Emergence of the Local Print Culture in Banaras, 1800-1900 |url=https://ir.nbu.ac.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/e3009db1-48e3-4450-bd0c-4b8873276e3b/content}}</ref> is also known as E.J. Lazarus & Co.<ref name = "photos"/> It was one of three European-owned printing presses in nineteenth-century [[colonial India]].<ref name = "sahani"/> It operated until at least the 1920s.<ref name = "photos">{{cite web |title=(#341) Benares--E.J. Lazarus & Co. |url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/art-imperial-india-l14502/lot.341.html |website=Sothebys.com |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Publishing companies of India]]<br />
[[Category:British India]]<br />
[[Category:Indian literature]]</div>Anthony