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The printing press was brought to India by the East India Company.

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The above statement is false.
Portuguese missionaries, not the East India Company, introduced the printing press to Goa in the middle of the sixteenth century. By 1674, there were over 50 printed books in the Kanara and Konkani languages. Later it spread to other languages; the first Malayalam book was printed in Cochin in 1713, and the first Tamil book was created there in 1579 by Catholic priests. By 1710, Dutch Protestant missionaries had produced 32 Tamil texts, many of which were translations of earlier works.
Hence the correct statement would be that the printing press was brought to India by the Portuguese missionaries.

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