''Maharashtriya Dnyanakosha''(
Devanagari
Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental syste ...
:महाराष्ट्रीय ज्ञानकोश,
IAST
The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanisation of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages. It is based on a scheme that emerged during ...
:Mahārāṣṭrīya dñyānakośa) is the first encyclopaedia in the Marathi language.
Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar
Shri Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar (2 February 1884 – 10 April 1937) was a Marathi sociologist, historian and novelist from Maharashtra, India. He is principally known as the chief editor of '' Maharashtriya Jnanakosha'', the first-ever encycloped ...
was the chief editor the encyclopedia. Work began in 1916 and it was completed in 1928.
Structure
The encyclopaedia was published in 23 volumes. The first five volumes are introductory, and consist of a series of lengthy articles on various sociological and historical subjects. They are titled as follows:
* Volume 1:'' Hindustan ani Jaga'' (हिंदुस्तान अाणि जग, India and the World)
* Volume 2: ''Vedavidya'' (वेदविद्या, Vedic Knowledge)
* Volume 3: ''Buddhapurva Jaga'' (बुद्धपूर्व जग, The World Before Buddha)
* Volume 4: ''Buddhotar Jaga'' (बुद्धोत्तर जग, The World After Buddha)
* Volume 5: ''Vijnanetihas'' (विज्ञानेतिहास, History of Sciences)
Volumes 6 through 21 consist of an alphabetically arranged series of short articles (as in a conventional encyclopaedia). Volume 22 is the index (सूची), and finally volume 23 (Hindusthan, हिंदुस्थान) contains some additional information about India.
Availability on the internet
The entire encyclopedia is made available on the internet by
Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan,
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...
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Citations
External links
Official Site : Ketkar Dnyanakosh online
Marathi encyclopedias
Indian online encyclopedias
1916 non-fiction books
20th-century encyclopedias
20th-century Indian books
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