Nair, Savithri Preetha - In: The Indian Economic & Social History Review 48 (2011) 4, pp. 497-529
This article throws light on the self-consciously modern attempt on the part of Raja Serfoji II (r. 1798–1832) of Tanjore, South India to establish a Devanagari press in 1802–07 for the dissemination of ‘useful knowledge’. Adopting a social constructivist approach,...