What was the Portuguese influence on printing?
Answer:
- The printing press first came to Goa with the Portuguese missionaries in the mid 16th century.
- Jesuit priests learnt Konkani and printed several tracts.
- By 1674, about 50 books had been printed in the Konkani and Kanara languages.
- Dutch protestant in missionaries had printed 32 Tamil texts, many of them were translations of older works.