The contribution of European missionaries to the Indian languages is huge to ignore. The grammar of many North Indian languages was compiled as books by missionaries. For example, the Hindi grammar book was compiled by the year 1820 AD by a Christian missionary. Printing in Indian languages began with the printing of the Thamizh Bible at Tharangambadi (Tranquebar) in Tamil Nadu by Ziegan Balg of Holland. It was a great boon for the fairly illiterate majority; illiteracy resulted because Thamizh was suppressed as an abominable language by the Jewish Aryans. (The original printing press is exhibited in a museum here). Indian literary classics were translated, and dictionaries were compiled by missionaries. Books, magazines and newspapers in vernacular languages started appearing everywhere.