<P> Among the first Protestant missionaries to set foot in India were two Lutherans from Germany , Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Pluetschau , who began work in 1705 in the Danish settlement of Tranquebar . Ziegenbalg translated the Old and New Testaments into Tamil , imported a printing press , and printed the New Testament in Tamil in 1714 . </P>
<P> Among the first Protestant missionaries to set foot in India were two Lutherans from Germany , Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Pluetschau , who began work in 1705 in the Danish settlement of Tranquebar . Ziegenbalg translated the Old and New Testaments into Tamil , imported a printing press , and printed the New Testament in Tamil in 1714 . </P>
where was first tamil printing press established in tamilnadu
where was first tamil printing press established in tamilnadu
1714
1714