S.M.Katre

Dr. Sumitra Mangesh Katre (S.M.Katre), a lexicographer, Indo Aryan and Paninian linguist, was born on 11th April 1906 at Honnavara, Karanataka State. He completed his primary education in Ganapati School and Intermediate in Govt college Mangalore. He took B.A. honors degree in Mathematics from Presidency college Madras. Then he went to London for higher education in college of Oriental studies, London university. In 1931 he took his P.hd. in London. “The Formation Of Konkani” book written by Dr.S.M.Katre is a tribute to his mother tongue Konkani. It used the instruments of modern historical and comparitive linguistics across six typical Konkani dialects, which showed the formation of Konkani to be distinct from that of Marathi. Govt of India gave recognition to Konkani as a Independent language in 8th schedule of Indian constitution.

Career
Dr. Katre Joined Nowrosjee Wadia College, Pune as a Sanskrit professor. Later he joined as a professor of Indo Aryan language dept of Deccan college, also became the director of that Institution. Dr Katre has given many lectures and trainings on Linguistics in many universities like Annamalai, Agra, Kolkata, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Madras, Mysore, Osmania and Shivaji university, Maharashtra. He has published Panini Vaksari in 3 parts.

Honours
Dr. Katre was President, treusurer and member of so many linguistics Institutions like Royal Asiatic Sosciety, Britan, Philological Society, Britan, Society de Linguistic, Paris, Linguistic Society of America, American Oriental Society, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Kuppuswamy Shastra Research Institute, Linguistic Society of India. He was president of the 7th session of the All India Konkani Parishad held on 27-28 April 1957 at Mumbai.