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The printing press first came to India with Portuguese missionaries at:

AGoa coast
BCochin port
CSurat port
DMadras port
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Goa coast
1. This was the mid-sixteenth century. 2. Goa was the entry point. 3. Jesuits printed Konkani tracts. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 5, Print Culture and the Modern World._
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