Marathi Vishwakosh

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The Marathi Vishwakosh ({{lit|Marathi Encyclopedia}}) is an online free encyclopedia in Marathi language, funded by the Government of Maharashtra, India.(2 December 2011). [https://web.archive.org/web/20131219111729/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-12-02/pune/30467060_1_encyclopedia-digitised-volume 2nd volume of Marathi encyclopedia released], The Times of IndiaGole, Swati Shinde (16 November 2011). [https://web.archive.org/web/20131219111329/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-11-16/pune/30404845_1_encyclopedia-volume-encyclopaedia Marathi encyclopaedia goes online], The Times of 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 22 volumes were published by 2010.Kolhatkar, M.R. [https://books.google.com/books?id=1VewwRQg67cC&pg=PA75 Vishwakosh or Marathi Encyclopedia: An Innovative Project of the New State of Maharashtra], in Innovations in Public Administration (S.S. Gadkari & M.R. Kolhatkar, eds.) (2000)Gokhale, Madhav (14 September 2003). [http://www.indianexpress.com/oldStory/31466/ The Great Marathi], The Indian Express (2003 report on status of the print version, with 16 volumes published at that time) The encyclopedia began publishing the existing volumes on the internet on October 25, 2011, as announced by the Chief Minister of Maharashtra in Mumbai.(1 November 2011). [http://www.cdac.in/index.aspx?id=prs_rl204 Marathi Vishwakosh], Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (Government press release about online release of first volume) Currently nineteen volumes of the encyclopedia are available online on the Internet.