Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan (All India Marathi Literary Conference) is an annual conference for literary discussions by

Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India **Marathi people (Uttar Pradesh), the Marathi people in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Mar ...

writers. Marathi is the official language of

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State. The first Marathi Sahitya Sammelan was held in

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in 1878 under the chairmanship of Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade.

Conferences held

Following is the list of the conferences with year and venue:

Women presidents

Only six women have been the presidents of the Sammelan to date:

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sahitya Sammelan, Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Annual events in India Culture of Maharashtra Indic literature societies