Anant Priolkar Quotes

Anant Kakba Priolkar was an Indian historian, author and researcher. Born in 1895, he started writing while he was in school and his writing stopped only with his death in 1973. His book entitled, "The Goa Inquisition", is considered as his master piece. He was also elected as the President of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held in 1951 at Karwar. He strongly advocated for the merger of Goa in Maharashtra and he also considered Konkani as a dialect of Marathi language. He died in 1973. Wikipedia

✵ 5. September 1895 – 13. April 1973

“During the early period of British rule in India, the administrators tended to look askance at the growth of the printing press in this country. Indians had not sufficiently advanced at this stage to participate effectively in journalism, and the press was in the hands of the compatriots of the rulers. But these people were often extremely critical of the admini- strators. This was not only embarrassing at the moment, but it was feared that it might result in accelerating the growth of political consciousness among Indians, a prospect which many administrators were not prepared to view with equanimity. Fortunately, there were far-sighted statesmen like Elphinstone, who held that the immediate practical advantages of the press as an instrument of popular education far outweighed the remote political risks, and they sought a solution of the difficult problem in the establishment of a controlled press.”

Anant Priolkar

The Printing Press in India: Its Beginnings and Early Development, Being a Quatercentenary Commemoration Study of the Advent of Printing in India