Career
Professor Katre has made the initiation of the gigantic Sanskrit Dictionary Project, Encyclopedic of Sanskrit on Historical Principles, with its 11 million slips preserved in the scriptorium. His work The Formation of Konkani is his tribute to his mother tongue Konkani. South. M. Katre’s 1966 work, The Formation of Konkani, which utilized the instruments of modern historical and comparative linguistics across six typical Konkani dialects, showed the formation of Konkani to be distinct from that of Marathi.
He was president of the 7th Session of the All India Konkani Parishad held on 27–28 April 1957 at Mumbai.
