The Colossus That Was Bapurao Naik

(Arun Naik, Bapurao Naik's elder son speaks at the Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sangh kickstarting Bapurao Naik's centenary year celebrations).

A Ka Priolkar was a scholar and professor of Marathi. He was president of the Karwar sahitya sammelan in 1951. Apart from basic work like The Goa Inquisition, Goa Rediscovered, he was also the author of the monumen-tal work The Printing Press in India. It traces the history of printing in India. Beginning with the first printing press which reached India in 1556, a little over a hundred years after invention of movable type and a hand press in Mainz in Germany around 1540, he traced the entire his-tory. My father was fascinated by this book, being a printer himself. So, he befriended Priolkar who called him his son. My father did further research with a different accent. He delivered lectures in Pune in 1971 entitled “Bharatiya Grantha Mudran” (Indian Book Printing). For this he collected over 300 old books. The first book was printed in Rome in 1778. Such books are called inculabula or cradle books. In Marathi they are known as dolamudrite. The lectures were printed in book form in 1980. A beautifully printed book by C.S. Latkar in Kalpana Mudranalay, it contains covers and title pages of these books. I recently spoke at Leeds University in a seminar on ‘The Legacy of Letterpress Printing in India’. I am not a scholar in this field. I based my lecture on these two books: The Printing Press in India and Bharatiya Grantha Mudran. I have serialised the English translation of the book in Print Bulletin (which I edited) in 2001. It needs to be published in book form.

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The Colossus That Was Bapurao Naik

(Arun Naik, Bapurao Naik's elder son speaks at the Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sangh kickstarting Bapurao Naik's centenary year celebrations).