When and where was the first printing press established in India?

The first printing press in India was established in Goa, brought by Jesuit missionaries in the mid sixteenth century.

It was set up at the College of St. Paul in Goa in 1556 and printed religious texts.

Kerala did not host the country's first press, though printing later spread across the south.

Tamil Nadu became an early printing centre only afterwards, not the site of the very first press.

Bengal's presses, associated with later colonial Calcutta, came much later in the story of Indian printing.

Goa's press marks the true starting point of print communication in India.

This early press printed in Latin and later in Tamil and Konkani.