Who introduced the first printing press in India?

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The printing press was brought to India at Francis Xavier's initiative.
He was a known 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. 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."

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