Marathi Vishwakosh


The Marathi Vishwakosh is an online free encyclopedia in Marathi language, funded by the Government of Maharashtra, India.
The project to create the encyclopedia started as a print project and was inaugurated in 1960, and Lakshman Shastri Joshi was named the first president of the project. The first volumes were published in 1976, and eventually 18 volumes were published by 2010. The encyclopedia began publishing the existing volumes on the internet on October 25, 2011, as announced by the Chief Minister of Maharashtra in Mumbai. Currently nineteen volumes of the encyclopedia are available online on the Internet.

Editors-in-Chief of Marathi Vishwakosh

Sr No.EditorTenure
1.Tarkateertha Lakshman Shastri Joshi19 Nov. 1960 - 27 May 1994
2.Prof. M. P. Rege4 June 1994 - 28 Dec. 2000
3.shri. R. G. Jadhav16 Jan. 2001 - 10 Feb. 2003
4.Dr. Shrikant Jichakar21 July 2003 - 2 June 2004
5.Dr. Vijaya Wad9 Dec. 2005 - 8 Dec. 2008
& 9 June 2009 - 30 June 2015
6.shri. Dilip karambelkar from Aug.2015