Narayan Govind Kalelkar
Narayan Govind Kalelkar was a linguist from Maharashtra, India.
He was born in the village of Bambuli in Ratnagiri District. He received his early college education in Baroda and Mumbai with specialization in French language, and a D.Lit. Degree from a university in Paris.
He taught French and Literature at Baroda Vidyapeeth, and Indo-Aryan/Indo-European languages at Deccan College in Pune.
Kalelkar authored several books on linguistics in Marathi, they being the first of their kind in Marathi. His Dhwanivichar and Bhasha Ani Samskruti received Maharashtra state's literary prizes; and his Bhasha: Itihas Ani Bhoogol received a Sahitya Akademi award in 1967.Kalekar's study of Konkani was instrumental in Sahitya Akademi's decision in 1975 to recognize Konkani as an independent Indian language.
