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Professor S.M. Katre had a long (1937-1971) and distinguished service record at the Deccan College in Pune, first as Professor of Indo-European Philology and then as the Founding Editor of the famous An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Sanskrit on Historical Principles. He was concurrently the Director of Deccan College from 1942 till his superannuation in 1971. During his tenure, with the able support of his colleagues and multisided and generous developmental grants obtained from government for formulating a series of national-level research projects, this Deccan-centred institution rose in a short time to its present national and international stature in heritage studies covering archaeology, ancient and medieval history, anthropology-sociology, linguistics and Sanskrit. Katre introduced linguistics at post-graduate level in Indian universities and has several important publications to his credit in linguistics, lexicography, Sanskrit studies and critical analysis of ancient texts. He chose to spend his post-retirement years in the U.S. and continued his research endeavours as a visiting scholar at the University of Texas (Austin) and other reputed institutions. Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1987) is his last major and widely acclaimed book.
