भारतात मुद्रणालयाची सुरुवात सर्वप्रथम कोठे झाली ?

The correct answer is Option D (Goa).

Key Points:
• Arrival of Printing Press in India:
• The first printing press in India was brought by Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in 1556 at Goa (St. Paul's College, Old Goa).
• Originally destined for Abyssinia (modern Ethiopia), political circumstances detained the printing equipment at Goa.
• The first printed book in India was a religious thesis entitled *Conclusiones Philosophicas* (1556), followed by Garcia de Orta's famous medical text *Colóquios dos simples e drogas he cousas medicinais da Índia* in 1563 at Goa.
• Subsequent printing presses were established in Punnaikayal/Vipicotta (Kerala/Tamil Nadu) and much later in Bombay and Bengal during the British period (James Augustus Hicky published Bengal Gazette in 1780 from Calcutta).
• Thus, Goa was the first place in India where a printing press started.
• Key Takeaway: The first printing press in India was brought by Portuguese Jesuits to Goa in 1556.