Medical Hall Press

Medical Hall Press was a publishing house based in Benares, India in the nineteenth century, during which it was the city's foremost press.^[1] It published Sanskrit philosophical literature^[2] and plays, including Jayadeva's Prasannaraghava and Rajashekhara's Balaramayana ^[1]. It also published Hindi writer Premchand's now-lost novel 1907 Kishna.^[3] Its secondary literature includes reference material like textbooks in Hindi and English, which were translated to Urdu, ^[1][4] as well as dictionaries. The press also published missionary literature ^[5] as well as colonial photography ^[6] and scholarship, including Frederic Growse's Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District.

The press had fonts for various scripts, including Devanagari, Latin script, Arabic, and Urdu.^[7]

Medical Hall Press, founded by E.J. Lazarus in 1854, ^[8] is also known as E.J. Lazarus & Co.^[6] It was one of three European-owned printing presses in nineteenth-century colonial India.^[8] It operated until at least the 1920s.^[6]