page_title: Jaime Valfredo Rangel
section_title: Director of Tipografia Rangel
hierarchical_section_title: Jaime Valfredo Rangel / Director of Tipografia Rangel
caption_attribution_description: English: The published ballad of Carlos Eugenio Ferreira in 1926 by Tipografia Rangel
context_page_description: Dr Francisco Newton João Vicente da Piedade Jaime Valfredo Rangel was a Goan doctor, Director of Tipografia Rangel, President of the Municipal Council of Bardez and a delegate to the International Labour Organization for Portugal.
  Throughout the course of his career as the owner and director of Tipografia Rangel, Rangel was responsible for the publication of thousands of books important to Portuguese Literature and Goan Literature and publication of Portuguese newspaper O Independente and the archives of Goa Medical College for which he was the editor. Tipografia Rangel was one of the first private printing presses in Portuguese India and was a leader in the publishing of Portuguese Literature in Portuguese India prior to the Annexation of Goa in 1961.
context_section_description: During Rangel's time as head of the publication house did his business and literature in Goa flourish. The Press published work in English, Konkani, French and Portuguese.
  He took up responsibility of printing Boletim do Instituto Vasco da Gama and this was subsequently renamed as Boletim Instituto Menezes Braganza, the bulletin of one of the premier institutions for cultural activities in Goa since the 19th century.
  Rangel was also deeply involved in the scientific press of Portuguese India at the time publishing five periodicals in the medical field including the 
  Arquivos da Escola Medico–Cirurgica de Goa and  that had been established by Froilano de Mello and Boletim Geral
  De Medicina, an instruction for all doctors in Portuguese India.
  The publication house was the one of the largest in Goa publishing a total of 17 periodicals at the time including O Independente and O Indespensavel that were also created and edited by the Rangel family.
  His publications made him well known and his publication house synonymous for literature published in Goa at the time.
  In 1926 Tipografia Rangel published Hanv Saiba Poltodi Vetam by Carlos Eugenio Ferreira, which would become one of the most famous Dekhni songs in Goa and be adapted by Raj Kapoor as Na mangoon sona chandi in his Hindi movie Bobby.
  They continued to publish the work of this artist during his lifetime. Rangel also authored and published a book Imprensa em Goa in 1957 a description of the history and state of  the media in Portuguese India during the Portuguese rule of Goa which continues to be used a reference for the state of the colonial media.
caption: 'Ballads from the Konkan' of Carlos Eugenio Ferreira in 1926, published by the Rangel Press
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