The Marathi Vishwakosh is an online free encyclopedia in Marathi language, funded by the Government of Maharashtra, India.[1] [2]
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.[3] [4] The encyclopedia began publishing the existing volumes on the internet on October 25, 2011, as announced by the Chief Minister of Maharashtra in Mumbai.[5] Currently nineteen volumes of the encyclopedia are available online on the Internet.
The editors-in-chief of the Vishwakosh are as follows[6]
| Sr No. | Editor | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | November 19, 1960 to May 27, 1994 | ||
| 2. | Prof. M. P. Rege | June 4, 1994 to December 28, 2000 | |
| 3. | January 16, 2001 to February 10, 2003 | ||
| 4. | Dr. Shrikant Jichkar | July 21, 2003 to June 2, 2004 | |
| 5. | Dr. Vijaya Wad | December 9, 2005 to December 8, 2008, and June 9, 2009, to June 30, 2015 | |
| 6. | Dilip Karambelkar | August 10, 2015 to January 2, 2020 |