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1. Pandharipande, Rajeshwari.V. “Marathi” (Descriptive Grammers) Routledge: London and Newyork. 1997. P.No. - 630.
This book deals with the descriptive grammar of Marathi language. The main aim of this book is to provide descriptions of a wide range of language according to the format in the Questionnaire. The author has covered syntactical, morphological, phonological and lexical parts of Marathi language.
This book brings together both the traditional descriptions and the cross-linguistic interest like phrase-structure, anaphora and reflexives, subordination, co-ordination, relativisation, causativisation, negation and word order. Regional, Dialectal, stylistic variations of the language are also discussed in detail along with the sociolinguistic and functional aspects of various structures of the Marathi language. It also covers aspects such as typology, language variation, language geography and language contact.
2. Manwaring A. “Marathi Proverbs” Clarendon Press: Oxford. 1899: p.no.- 271. This book contains Marathi proverbs along with the English translation of it. All the proverbial expressions, which has the thought and character of people are included in this book. Majority of the western Indian proverbs are collected by some individuals, both male and female from various books. The author has classified the proverbs into thirteen aspects such as agriculture, animals, the body and its members, ethical, food, health and disease, the house, money, names, nature, relationship, religious, trades and professionals, unclassified proverbs are also given. The sayings about hand or foot, comes under the body and its members. Similarly, the referring to domestic comes under house etc.
3. Kapoor., Subodh. ed. “The Indian Encyclopaedia” (vol-15) New Delhi- Cosmo publications. 2002. p. no. 4816.
This encyclopedia contains all the biographical, historical, religious, administrative, etymological, commercial and scientific details. It is published in 25 volumes.
4. Bhatt. S.C. ed. “The Encyclopaedic District Gazetters of India”. Western zone (vol- 7)- New Delhi: Gyan Publishing House. 2002: p. no. 659.
The encyclopedia which is published in 11 volumes, deals with 526 districts of India in 25 states and 7 union territories. All the districts are arranged statewise and it is classified into six zones: Southern, northern, central, western, eastern and north-eastern. The map and detailed introduction of each state and union territory is given along with beautiful colours and black and white photographs. These volumes contain location and area, history, population, languages and religion, geographical features, rivers, towns, villages and amenities, communications, agriculture and irrigation, animal husbandry, industries, trade, commerce and tourism, fairs and festivals, education, medical, media, administration and planned development. This book is useful for journalists, writers, researchers, editors, tourists, librarians, students and general readers.
5. Edited by: Members of AIU (Association of Indian Universities): University Handbook: Published by Association of Indian Universities for every alternate year: p.no.- 1318.
This handbook gives full information regarding each Indian University level Institutions. It contains the officers and deans of faculties, library and research facilities, scholarships and fellowships, Academic year, last date for admissions and the approximate dates of examinations, courses for studies, minimum requirements for admission to each course, duration and the subjects of study, name of professors, readers/ Associate professors along with academic titles, department wise and names of colleges with names of Principals and Head of postgraduate departments in college and also an overview of the University system in India.
6. Berntsen., Maxine. and Nimbakar., Jai. “A Marathi Reference Grammar” Published by Richard D’Lambert, U.S.A.-University of Pennsylvania, 1975: p. no. –206.
This book is prepared by considering the adult students learning Marathi through the medium of English. The formulas given in the book are simple and are helpful for the students. The grammars which are given here are based on the model of Transformational grammar which is developed by Zellig Harris. This book is used by many students as a reference volume to check particular facts.
7. Navalkar, Ganapat Rao. “The Student’s Marathi Grammar” New Delhi: Asian Educational Services. 1894. p. no.377.
This book is the enlarged edition of “Student’s Manual of Marathi Grammar”. This book is prepared mainly for the beginners and advanced students. The author has given the form and sense of every grammatical word and inflection. In this book the author discussed about ‘the declension of nouns’ in detail. The number of declensions is reduced from six or seven to three and also the simple method of deriving the crude-form is also given. The Marathi noun should be declined with the help of two pronominal letters. The sections such as the inherent +, the accent, the compound verbs etc are regarded as new and original and some chapters like Etymology is interesting.
8. Dr. Kalyan Kale and Dr. Anjali Soman. “Learning Marathi”- Pune: Vishakha Prakashan. 1986: p.no.- 231.
Learning Marathi is prepared by the author with the intention of teaching Marathi language to non-marathi adult learners. This is useful for both the learners as well as teachers of Marathi. This book attempts to give all the basic structures of Marathi. In order to correlate this book with actual language, the author has chosen the conversational style. Along with this, the narrative and descriptive styles are also used. The socio-cultural part remain untouched as the book focuses on a learner.
This book has 2-3 graded lessons along with 18 script lessons. It contains basic structures of Marathi and 1500 vocabulary. One can easily master the basic skills of Marathi such as listening, speaking, reading and writing with the help of this book. This script book consists of 18 graded lessons based on shape similarity. All the letters are grouped according to the similarity of their shapes. Each lesson has a list of teaching points in the beginning which is followed by the body of the lesson. It also contains grammatical notes along with the explanations. The drill section helps to check and assess the grasping power of all the teaching points. At the end of each lesson, separate conversation passage is given for practice. At the end of the book, the vocabulary is given alphabetically.
9. Jules Bloch: “The Formation of Marathi Language”: Published by- Motilal Banarasidass-1914: p.no. –416.
This book was originally published in French under the title “La formation de la langue marathe” in 1920 by Jules Bloch. But it is translated into English by Dr. Dev Raj Chanana. After being appointed as a member of ‘Ecole Francaise d’Extrēme-Orient’, Jules Bloch studied both in the field of dravidology and Marathi. Marathi was considered as drāviḍa for sometimes. Jules Bloch conducted his studies in Tamil and dravidology and he properly placed Marathi language in its whole environment. In this book, Jules Bloch discussed the origin of Marathi language and studied the whole structure of Marathi.
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