Medical Hall Press was a publishing house based in Benares, India in the nineteenth century, during which it was the city's foremost press.[1] It published Sanskrit philosophical literature[2] and plays, including Jayadeva's Prasannaraghava and Rajashekhara's Balaramayana.[1] It also published Hindi writer Premchand's now-lost novel 1907 Kishna.[3] Its secondary literature includes reference material like textbooks in Hindi and English, which were translated to Urdu,[1][4] as well as dictionaries. The press also published missionary literature[5] as well as colonial photography[6] and scholarship, including Frederic Growse's Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District.
The press had fonts for various scripts, including Devanagari, Latin script, Arabic, and Urdu.[7]
Medical Hall Press, founded by E.J. Lazarus in 1854,[8] is also known as E.J. Lazarus & Co.[6] It was one of three European-owned printing presses in nineteenth-century colonial India.[8] It operated until at least the 1920s.[6]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Orsini, Francesca (26 June 2004). "Pandits, Printers and Others: Publishing in nineteenth-century Benares". Permanent Black. pp. 103–138.
- ↑ "Shri Narayan Kavyam 1897 Medical Hall Press Kashi".
- ↑ Gupta, Prakash Chandra (2010). Prem Chand (Repr ed.). New Delhi: Sahitya Akad. ISBN 9788126024285.
- ↑ "All writings of Medical Hall Press, Banaras". Rekhta.
- ↑ Lorbeer, H. (1882). "Memoirs of Rev. W. Ziemann: founder and missionary of the Ghazipur Mission". Medical Hall Press.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "(#341) Benares--E.J. Lazarus & Co". Sothebys.com.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Sahani, Santosh Kumar. "Emergence of the Local Print Culture in Banaras, 1800-1900".