Mariano Saldanha

Mariano Jose Luis de Gonzaga Saldanha (1878 – 1975) was an Indian writer and teacher. Born in Uskai (Ucassaim) village in Portuguese Goa, he studied medicine and pharmacy, but went on to become a teacher of Marathi and Sanskrit at the Lyceum in Goa (1915–1929) and of Sanskrit and Konkani at Lisbon, at the university and at the Advanced School of Colonial Administration (Instituto Superior de Estudos Ultramarinos) (1929–1946). In 1946-48, he was Deputy Director of the new institute of African and Oriental languages in Lisbon.