--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@...> wrote:

>
> But nothing to do with bringing printing to India!

The Jesuits printed Tamil books in India in the 16th century! I
don't know about the other languages because they were not my
area of interest.

Kircher, a Jesuit, had fonts for Devanagari and Bangla in 1667,
so I would think that a little more reading by anyone interested in
this topic might just turn up further details. I think that it would be
worth investigating this further to see if it was not, in fact, the
Jesuits, rather than the British, that brought printing to India.

Anyway Diderot and Alembert had fonts for many Indic scripts in
1750.

Suzanne

>
> > "A general form of transcription has for long been used in

the

> > early period of such conversion processes, starting from

1667 to

> > 1894. The earliest example of such transcription is found in a
> > book called China monumentis by Athanasius Kircher,
> > published in 1667, which printed a specimen of the Bangla
> > alphabet, along with corresponding Roman letters. "
> >
> > http://www.weeklyholiday.net/300802/com.html
> >
> > When did the British get to india? I should know this but can't
> > some up with a date offhand.
>
> ISTR something about Clive, and 1758, but the East India

Company, a

> quasi-governmental agency, was much earlier than that.
> --
> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...