About us (Profile of the Department) : Department of Marathi

(established on 1st August, 1969)

Academic goals of the Department :

To generate interest in Marathi language & literature at higher levels of learning through the following activities :

1. Conducting post-graduate teaching effectively.

2. Supervising research at the levels of M. Phil. & Ph. D. Identifying new areas of research & Conducting independent reasearch through various research projects.

3. Organising seminars, conferences, workshops, symposia, refresher courses.

4. Publishing research monographs, bibliographies & scholarly books.

Achievements of the Department :

(1) Introduced innovative methods in teaching. e.g. encouraging students to make classroom-presentation; use of aids such as TV/VCR/Tape-recorder.

(2) Students were encouraged to work in new and interdisciplinary areas, e.g. Dalit Sahitya.

(3) Organized seminars, symposia, conferences, workshops on various themes. e.g. certain modern disciplines & insights were incorporated in seminar themes, such as Stylistics, Semeiotics etc.

Help Desk

First Floor, Room No. 152, Ranade Bhavan, Vidyanagari Campus, Kalina, Santacruz (East), Mumbai 400 098.

Tel. : 26526091, 26526388 (Ext. Head - 340, Office - 341)

26526388, 26527950 to 61, (Ext. Dr. Patankar - 522, Dr. Rajapure-Tapas - 523,

Dr. Matkar - 524, Prof. Kamble - 525)