The Mahratta Education Fund (MEF) is a non-profit organization working for the spread of education to poor and deserving students of
South Indian Marathi
Marathi may refer to:
*Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India
*Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people
*Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece
See also
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speaking community.
The Fund was founded by a 21-year old lawyer
E. Vinayaka Row during a meeting convened on September 15, 1912, hosted by
Rao Saheb P. Ramachandra Rao and chaired by
Dewan Bahadur K. Krishnaswami Rao Sahib (later
Cabinet Secretary,
Government of India
The Government of India (ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy located in South Asia, c ...
).
References
Marathi language
Languages of Tamil Nadu
Languages of Karnataka
Non-profit organisations based in India
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