Naval Kishore Press Bibliography
In 1858, the Naval Kishore Press (NKP) was founded in the North Indian city of Lucknow by Munshi Naval Kishore (1836-1895). Over the next four decades the press developed into one of the most important publishing houses in India. During Naval Kishore's lifetime, the press published approximately 5,000 titles in Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, and English. The publishing portfolio covered a wide range of subjects, including literature in regional languages, school books, conduct and advice literature, religion, classical Sanskrit literature, literature on Islam, on Indian medicine, Quran editions, and translations of English classics such as the plays of William Shakespeare.
The Naval Kishore Press collection at the CATS Library / Dept. South Asia comprises around 2,300 titles (of which 742 titles are on microfilm), offering a representative cross-section of the production of this important publishing house.
The Naval Kishore Press Bibliography serves as a provenance database for publishing houses' printed works. Its aim is to document holdings distributed in libraries worldwide in a central database. In addition to the collection in Heidelberg, around 1,100 titles of the Naval Kishore Press available at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, are also documented. Digitised and freely accessible works can be accessed directly from the bibliography.
Currently, the Naval Kishore Press bibliography contains approximately 3,600 bibliographic entries.
The titles are catalogued and indexed by subject in the union catalog K10Plus using authority data from the Integrated Authority File (Gemeinsame Normdatei, GND). The presentation uses the discovery system VuFind, which was developed as open-source software.
Naval Kishore Press Bibliography
Naval Kishore Press - digital
Selected works from the collection have been digitised and made available online as searchable full-text versions, both in Devanāgarī script as well as in Latin transliteration. A search term found via full-text search is visible in the facsimile and the OCR text by highlighting the text passage on line-level.
A high-quality OCR PDF file of the facsimile image is also available for download, with two versions of the text stored in the background (Devanāgarī and transliteration). This means that the PDF file can be searched in both scripts.
FID4SA uses innovative, AI-based methods to generate the searchable full texts and relies on the potential of the Transkribus platform, which was developed as part of the READ project. You can find more information about our work with Transkribus in our portal under Werkstatt.
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