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Professor A. M. Ghatage
Prof Ghatage was born on the 10th of August in Hasurchampu, a small village in the Gadhinglaj Taluka of Maharashtra He was educated at the primary level in the English School at Gadhinglaj His High School education was at the Rajaram High School, Kolhapur He was graduated as a First-divisioner B A Honours in 1932 and post-graduated as a First-class M A. of the University of Bombay twice, once with Prakrit and Pāli and again with Sanskrit and English Shri A. M Ghatage got his PhD degree at the same university in 1940 under the guidance of Prof H D Velankar in Sanskrit Linguistics, with 'History of Causal Formation in Indo-Aryan' as the subject of his doctoral dissertation Thanks to a Fellowship of the Rock Feller Foundation of New York, he studied Descriptive Linguistics and Historical Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in the year 1956-57
His teaching career began as a Lecturer in Ardhamāgadhi at the SP College, Pune in 1935-36, and next he joined the Rajaram College, Kolhapur as the Assistant Professor of Sanskrit and Prakrit from 1936 onwards With the merger of the Kolhapur State in the then Bombay Province, he was absorbed in the Bombay Education Service Class II, and served in the Karnataka College, Dharwar, as also in the Nagpur Mahavidyalaya, in the same post During his stay at Philadelphia in 1956-57, he supervised over the Rgveda students for one term in the absence of Prof Norman Brown From 1957 his services were loaned to the Deccan College, Pune, first as the Professor of Linguistics, and next as the Director of the Language Project, and a few years after as the Professor of General Linguistics and Head of the Department of Linguistics, this was till 1978
Since 1968, he also worked as the Director of the Centre of Advanced Studies in Linguistics, as also the Joint-Director, of the Deccan College, Pune In 1973 he was appointed as the General Editor of the project of the Sanskrit Dictionary on Historical Principles He retired from this post on the 10th of August, 1983 at the age of 70 years, but was asked to continue as Emeritus Adviser to the
