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Here are a “couple”:http://blogs.britannica.com/blog/main/2007/03/earliest-printed-books-in-selected-languages-part-1-800-1500-ad/ of “blogposts”:http://blogs.britannica.com/blog/main/2007/04/earliest-printed-books-in-select-languages-part-2-1501-1879/ listing the earliest known printed books in different languages. I found the following entries for the Indian languages.

  • Tamil. Thampiraan vaNakkam (Goa, India: Henrique Henriques, 1578).
  • Bengali. Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, A Grammar of the Bengal Language (Hugli, India, 1778).
  • Hindi. A Grammar of the Hindoostanee Language (Calcutta, India: Chronicle Press, 1796).
  • Oriya. Mrtyuñjaya Bidyalankar, trans. [New Testament] (Shrirampur, India: Serampore Mission Press, 1807).
  • Malayalam. [New Testament] (Bombay, India: Courier Press, 1811).
  • Assamese. William Carey, et al., trans. [New Testament] (Shrirampur, India: Serampore Mission Press, 1813).
  • Telugu. Grammar of Telugu (Shrirampur, India: Serampore Mission Press, 1813).

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