* Marathi Sahitya ( Review of the Marathi Literature up to I960 ) by Kusumavati Deshpande, Maharashtra Information Centre, New Delhi

* Sahitya Akademi Award ( Marathi )-Vyakti Ani Valli ( 1965 )

Marathi Sahitya Sammelan, the conference on Marathi Literature were held twice in Amravati city.

* The 62nd Marathi Sahitya Sammelan was held at Amravati for the first time in the year 1989.

One of the greatest Marathi writers, Sahitya Akademi Award winner G. A. Kulkarni also lived most of his life here in Dharwad.

Category: Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Marathi

Yadav was one of the early writers of Marathi Gramin Sahitya ( literature pertaining to rural life in Maharashtra ).

Yadav was elected as the president of the 82nd Marathi Sahitya Sammelan which was held at Mahabaleshwar in March 2009.

Category: Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Marathi

Category: Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Marathi

Following this, Berde started his acting career with the Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sangh.

His Marathi verse collection Bhijki Vahi won a Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005.

He established the Marathi Sahitya Mandal and supported the Marathi Sahitya Sammelan ( Conference ).

Yayati, a Marathi novel by V. S. Khandekar, won him the Sahitya Akademi Award ( 1960 ), and a Jnanpith Award ( 1974 ).

He presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan in 1988.

* Ranjit Desai, Swami ( 26th Edition March 2007, published by Mehta Publishers, Marathi Literature ).

Prior to the mass conversions to Buddhism, some Mahar had converted to Christianity after evangelization by American Marathi Mission and Church Mission Society, United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel by Church of England in the nineteenth century.

Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India Marathi has some of the oldest literature of all modern Indo-European, Indic languages, dating from about 1000 AD.

Jawaharlal Nehru University ( New Delhi ) has announced plans to establish a special department for Marathi.

In Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati, and many other Indian languages, the meaning of Akasha has been accepted as sky.

The base of the statue has an inscriptions in Kannada as well as the oldest evidence of written Marathi, i. e. devnagari script, dating from 981 AD.

* uncommon, archaic or literary use in certain modern Indian languages ( such as Marathi in which a separate ablative case has however disappeared )

He has sung a Marathi song " Ya Duniyemadhye Thambayaala Vel Konala " which was written by noted Marathi lyricist Shantaram Nandgaonkar.

The word ghee comes from (, ' sprinkled ') and has several names around the world ( Bengali: ঘ ী ghi, Punjabi: ਘ ਿ ਉ ghio, Hindi: घ ी ghī, Gujarati: ઘ ી ghi, Maithili / Nepali: घ ् य ू ghyū, Urdu: گھی ghī, ghiô, Marathi / Konkani: त ू प tūp, Kannada: ತ ು ಪ ್ ಪ tuppa, Malayalam: ന െ യ ് യ ് ney, Tamil: ந ெ ய ் ney, Telugu: న ె య ్ య ి neyyi,, Arabic: سمنة samna, Persian: روغن حیوانی roghan-e heivâni, Georgian: ერბო erbo,, Malay: minyak sapi, Hausa: man shanu ).

* A leading Marathi entertainment channel, ETV-Marathi has launched a daily serial " Shrimant Peshwa Baji Rao Mastani " being produced by Nitin Chandrakant Desai Production from 14 June 2010.

Avinash C. Kak ( Marathi अव ि न ा श क ा क ) ( also known as Avi Kak, born 1944 ) is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University who has done pioneering research in several different aspects of information processing.

Pandurang Vaijnath Shastri Athavale () ( October 19, 1920 – October 25, 2003 ), also known as Dada-ji (), which literally translates as elder brother in Marathi, was an Indian philosopher, spiritual leader, social reformer and Hinduism reformist, who founded the Swadhyay Movement and the Swadhyay Parivar organization ( Swadhyay Family ) in 1954, a self-knowledge movement based on the Bhagavad Gita, which has spread across nearly 100, 000 villages in India, with over 5 million members.

It has several different names in India among which are: Kallu Sakkare ( Kannada ), Panakarkandu or Kalkandu ( kal-rock, kandu-candy ) ( Tamil / Malayalam ), " khadi sakhar " ( Marathi ), mishri ( Hindi ) and kalakanda / patika bellam ( Telugu ); the Persian word for rock candy is < I >" nabaat < I >".

The library has separate Indian language divisions for Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

The term Marāthā has two related usages: within the Marathi speaking region it describes the dominant Maratha caste ; historically, it describes the Maratha Empire founded by Shivaji in the seventeenth century and continued by his successors, which included many castes.

North Dakhini is spoken with an added influence of pure Urdu and while South Dakhini draws slightly more influences from Marathi, Kannada and Tamil, it has quite a number of original words not to be found in Urdu or Northern Dakhini, with even a slightly varied grammar and sentence structuring.

The garment has numerous other names such as, ଧ ୋ ତ ି Dhotī in Oriya, called ધ ૉ ત િ ય ુ Dhotiyu in Gujarati, চওৰক ী য ় ক া Suriya in Assamese, ধ ু ত ি Dhuti in Bengali, ಢ ೊ ತ ಿ/ ಕಛ ್ ಛ ೆ ಪನ ್ ಛ ೆ Dhoti or Kachche Panche in Kannada ,‌ Dhotar, Angostar, Aad-neschey or Pudve in Konkani, മ ു ണ ് ട ് Mundu in Malayalam, ధ ో త ీ/ ప ం చ ె Dhoti or Pancha in Telugu, ध ो तर Dhotar in Marathi, ਲ ਼ਾ ਛ Laacha in Punjabi and " Mardaani " in cities of UP, Bihar, Terai, வ ே ட ் ட ி vEtti or வ ே ஷ ் ட ி vEshti in Tamil.

It has several names in different languages, Jaswand in Marathi, ( Jaba ), Sembaruthi-ச ெ ம ் பர ு த ் த ி in Tamil,, Chemparathy-ച െ മ ് പരത ് ത ി in Malayalam, Mondaro in Oriya, Wada Mal in Sinhala, Mamdaram ( మ ం ద ా ర ం) in Telugu, Kembang Sepatu in Indonesia and Gumamela in Filipino.

The city has a rich cultural influence of Marathi music and drama.

Dadar has long been a cultural center, not only for Maharashtrians and the Marathi speaking population, but for the entire Indian diaspora.

It has now reopened and remains one of the theaters in Mumbai that show Marathi movies.

He has composed several hit songs in Hindi and Marathi.

Raamlaxman has made almost 75 films in Hindi, Marathi and Bhojpuri.

Amaranth greens, also called Chau lai ( Hindi ) and Chu or Chua ( Kumauni ), Chinese spinach, hinn choy or yin tsoi (); callaloo, dhantinasoppu ( ದ ಂ ಟ ಿ ನ ಸ ೊ ಪ ್ ಪ ು) / harive ( ಹರ ಿ ವ ೆ) ( Kannada ); త ో టక ూ ర ( Telugu ); Rajgira ( र ा जग ी र ा) ( Marathi ); ம ு ள ை க ் க ீ ர ை ( Tamil ); cheera ച ീ ര ( Malayalam ); bayam ( Indonesian ); phak khom ผ ั กโขม ( Thai ); tampala, or quelite ( Oriya ); Khada Saga, are a common leaf vegetable throughout the tropics and in many warm temperate regions.

The major dialects of Marathi are called Standard Marathi and Warhadi Marathi.

In western and coastal India, during weddings of the Marathi and Konkani people turmeric tubers are tied with strings by the couple to their wrists during a ceremony called Kankanabandhana.

In Maharashtra, bhakri ( भ ा कर ी in Marathi ; also called ಭಕ ್ ರ ಿ bhakri in Northern Karnataka ), a type of flat bread is prepared using finger millet ( ragi ) flour.

The combination of areca nut with betel leaf is called tamul ( ত া ম ূ ল / " ত া ম ো ল ") in Assamese, kavala in Kannada, tambulam in Sanskrit, bajjai in Tulu, and paan in Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, and Urdu.

In India and Pakistan, ginger is called adrak in Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu, aad in Maithili, aadi in Bhojpuri, aada in Bengali, Adu in Gujarati, hashi shunti ( ಹಸ ಿ ಶ ುಂ ಟ ಿ) in the Kannada, allam ( అల ్ ల ం) in Telugu, inji ( இஞ ் ச ி) in Tamil and Malayalam, inguru ( ඉඟ ු ර ු) in Sinhalese, alay in Marathi, and aduwa ( अद ु व ा ) in Nepali.

On the Indian subcontinent, green chickpeas are called Chana ( ચણ ા) in Gujarati Harbharaa in Marathi, while other varieties are known as Kadale Kaalu in Kannada, Shanaga ( శనగ ) in Telugu, chana in Hindi and other Indic languages, small brown peas are called Chhola ( ghoogni when cooked ) and the whitish bigger variety is called Kabuli Chhola in Bengali and Konda Kadalai in Tamil, where they are a major source of protein in a mostly vegetarian culture.

Godse started a Marathi newspaper for Hindu Mahasabha called Agrani, which some years later was renamed Hindu Rashtra.

Gutka ( Urdu گٹکھا, Hindi ग ु टख ा, Marathi ग ु टख ा Gujarati ગ ુ ટખ ા, Punjabi ਗ ੁ ਟਖ ਾ, also spelled gutkha, guttkha, or guthka ) is a preparation of crushed areca nut ( also called betel nut ), tobacco, catechu, paraffin, slaked lime and sweet or savory flavorings.

Monday is called Somavāram in Sanskrit and modern Indian languages, such as Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Marathi and Telugu, and alludes to the importance of this god in Hindu spirituality.

In Oriya, it is called tentuli, in Hindi it is called imli ( इमल ी); in Rajasthani, it is known as aamli ( आम ् ल ी); in Gujarati the amli, and Marathi and Konkani the chinch ; in Kannada it is called hunase ( ಹ ು ಣಸ ೆ), Telugu chintachettu ( tree ) and chintapandu ( fruit extract.

It is called ' majjige ' in Kannada, ' taak ' in Marathi, ' majjiga ' in Telugu and ' moru ' in Tamil and Malayalam.

In India, in Hindi, the practice is called as TTMM-Tu Tera Mein Mera Hindi ( or Tujhe Tu Majhe Mi in Marathi )( or " Nee unaku kodu, Naan enaku kodukaraen " in Tamil )( or " Ijju Ante Kodutho, Njan ente kodukkam " in Karakkadan Malayalam ) meaning ' You pay yours and I pay mine '.

** Among Marathi language speaking people ( predominantly of Maharashtra ), parents threaten the misbehaving children with a male ghost called ' Buva ' ( ब ु व ा).

Considered a masterpieces of Marathi literature, the Dnyaneshwari's 18 chapters are composed in a metre called " ovi ".

Gilli Danda known by various other names: it is called Tipcat in English, Dandi-Biyo ( डण ् ड ी ब ि य ो) in Nepali, alak-doulak ( الک دولک ) in Persian, dānggűli in Bengali & Assamese, chinni-dandu in Kannada, kuttiyum kolum in Malayalam, viti-dandu व ि ट ् ट ी द ां ड ू in Marathi, kitti-pul ( க ி ட ் ட ி- ப ு ல ்) in Tamil, Gooti-Billa or Karra-Billa or Billam-Godu in Telugu, Gulli-Danda in Punjabi, Geeti Danna () in ( Saraiki, Iti-Dakar ( اٽي ڏڪر ) in Sindhi, Lappa-Duggi ( لپا ڈگی ) in Pashto and Kon ko in khmer, the Cambodian language.

In Marathi, these are called Chawali or Chavali ( चवळ ी).

The Marathi name is Karna while it is called Kakarne hakki in Kannada In Kerala it is known as Theekakka ( literally " fire-crow ").