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{{Infobox institute
|name = Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad<br /> महाराष्ट्र साहित्य परिषद
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|established = 27 May 1906
|mission = Furtherance of [[Marathi language|Marathi]] literature
|focus = [[Marathi Language]]
|president = Dr. Raosaheb Kasabe
|chairman = Prof. Milind Joshi
|head = Prakash Paigude
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|key_people = Prakash Paigude
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|location =Sadashiv Peth,
|city = [[Pune]]
|state = [[Maharashtra]]
|country = India
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|address = Tilak Road, Near Durvankur Dinning Hall, Sadashiv Peth, Pune-411030
|website = http://www.masapapune.org/
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'''Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad''' is a literary institution situated in the [[West India]]n state of [[Maharashtra]] for the purpose of the "furtherance of [[Marathi language]] and [[Marathi literature|literature]]". It was set up in [[Pune]] in 1906. ''The Encyclopedia of Indian Literature'' considers it as Marathi's first representative literary body. The ''Parishad'' arranges [[annual conference]]s<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lokmat.com/storypage.php?catid=321&newsid=3674527|title=गुहागरात रंगणार मसापचे साहित्य संमेलन|trans-title=Guhagarat Ranganar Masapache Sahitya Sammelan|language=Marathi|work=[[Lokmat]]|location = [[Guhagar]], [[Maharashtra]]|date=November 2014|access-date=5 May 2015}}</ref> runs ''Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika'' a [[Marathi language|Marathi]] quarterly, provides a reference library, conducts qualifying examinations in [[Marathi language]] and literature and classes for non-Marathi speakers in Pune. It has undertaken the publishing a ''History of Marathi literature''. It has constituted various awards in the field of literature.<ref name="Datta2006">{{cite book|author=Amaresh Datta|title=The Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature (Volume One (A To Devo)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC&pg=PA255|accessdate=10 March 2012|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1803-1|pages=255–}}</ref> The ''Parishad'' according to Deshpande lead in the demand for the formation of a separate linguistic state – Maharashtra.<ref name="Deshpande2007">{{cite book|author=Prachi Deshpande|title=Creative pasts: historical memory and identity in western India, 1700–1960|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U5FdJnnDhSwC&pg=PA244|accessdate=10 March 2012|year=2007|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-12486-7|pages=244}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Indic literature societies]]
[[Category:Organisations based in Pune]]
[[Category:Marathi language]]
[[Category:Organizations established in 1906]]
[[Category:1906 establishments in India]]
[[Category:Language advocacy organizations]]
[[Category:Language regulators]]

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