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Armenian Merchants of Madras: The First Printing Press
In 1772, a small group of Armenian merchants in Madras, India, published the first ever Armenian-language printed book, a work that would ignite a cultural and political awakening across the Armenian diaspora. This episode explores the unlikely story of how a far-flung trading community in South India became the seedbed of Armenian modernity. We follow the journey of the merchant-turned-printer, Mkhitar Sebastatsi's rival vision, and the radical ideas of Hakob Shahamirian, whose 'Snare of Glory' proposed a democratic Armenian state decades before the French Revolution. Through…
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