Who brought the first printing press to India?

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In Goa, India's first printing press was inaugurated. The printing press was brought to India at Francis Xavier's initiative.
He was a noted Bible teacher in Tamil Nadu's Tharangambadi in the 1540s and was a Christian missionary. For King Joao III of Portugal at the time, the viceroy of Goa established schools for Indians. Francis Xavier consequently requested that Portugal also send printing presses to Ethiopia, Japan, and India. The Goan clergy thought that they required a printing press. They asked for access to the press from the governor-general. The printing press, therefore, remained in Goa, India. At the Jesuit St. Paul's College in Old Goa, the country's first printing press was created in 1556. The most well-known and first book printed in this press was "Catecismo da Doutrina Crist." Francis Xavier personally wrote this, although it wasn't published until five years after his passing.

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