Career
He has been called Caxton of India. In 1858, at the age of 22, he founded the "Newal Kishore Press and Book Depot" at Lucknow. This institution today is the oldest printing and publishing concern in Asia.
Mirza Ghalib was one of his admirers.
Munshi Newal Kishore was son of Pandit Jamuna Prasad Bhargave, a zamindar of Aligarh, and was born on January 3, 1836. He died in 1885 in Delhi.
The Government of India issued a postage stamp on him in his honour in 1970. Munshi Newal Kishore published more than 5000 books in Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, English, Marathi, Punjabi, Pashto, Perisan, Sanskrit and Urdu during 1858-1885.
Munshi Newal Kishore is the Oldest Publication of INDIA. they were much Admired by Noted Scholars of all languages from all parts of INDIA.
Allama Sayyid Shamsullah Qadri also had many of his work published through Munshi Newal Kishore.