diff --git a/pandas/__init__.py b/pandas/__init__.py
index 8b92ad6cdfebb..2d26ade931a06 100644
--- a/pandas/__init__.py
+++ b/pandas/__init__.py
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
     __version__ = v.get("closest-tag", v["version"])
     __git_version__ = v.get("full-revisionid")
     del get_versions, v
-
+__version__ = "2.3.3.dev0"
 
 # module level doc-string
 __doc__ = """
diff --git a/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py b/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py
index 4fbd71ed03662..e1df510be4e8a 100644
--- a/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py
+++ b/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py
@@ -672,8 +672,41 @@ def _read(
     filepath_or_buffer: FilePath | ReadCsvBuffer[bytes] | ReadCsvBuffer[str], kwds
 ) -> DataFrame | TextFileReader:
     """Generic reader of line files."""
-    # if we pass a date_format and parse_dates=False, we should not parse the
-    # dates GH#44366
+    engine = kwds.get("engine", "c")
+
+    if engine not in ("c", "python", "pyarrow", "polars"):
+        raise ValueError(f"Unknown engine: {engine}")
+
+    if engine == "polars":
+        try:
+            import polars as pl  # type: ignore[import-untyped]
+        except ImportError as err:
+            raise ImportError(
+                "Polars is not installed. Please install it with 'pip install polars'."
+            ) from err
+
+        # Filter kwargs that are not supported by Polars
+        allowed_polars_args = {
+            "has_header",
+            "columns",
+            "new_columns",
+            "skip_rows",
+            "n_rows",
+            "encoding",
+            "separator",
+            "quote_char",
+            "comment_char",
+            "null_values",
+        }
+        polars_kwargs = {k: v for k, v in kwds.items() if k in allowed_polars_args}
+        # Convert Path to string for Polars compatibility
+
+        path = str(filepath_or_buffer)
+
+        df = pl.read_csv(path, **polars_kwargs).to_pandas()
+        return df
+
+    # Default pandas behavior
     if kwds.get("parse_dates", None) is None:
         if kwds.get("date_format", None) is None:
             kwds["parse_dates"] = False
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/parser/test_read_csv_polars.py b/pandas/tests/io/parser/test_read_csv_polars.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..2139f5af9b9ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/parser/test_read_csv_polars.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import pytest
+
+
+def test_read_csv_with_polars(tmp_path):
+    pd = pytest.importorskip("pandas")
+
+    # Create a simple CSV file
+    file = tmp_path / "sample.csv"
+    file.write_text("a,b\n1,2\n3,4")
+
+    # Read using engine='polars'
+    df = pd.read_csv(file, engine="polars")
+
+    assert df.shape == (2, 2)
+    assert list(df.columns) == ["a", "b"]
+    assert df.iloc[0, 0] == 1
+    assert df.iloc[1, 1] == 4
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e013222f8fe79..ea40b46414344 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -16,9 +16,8 @@ build-backend = "mesonpy"
 
 [project]
 name = 'pandas'
-dynamic = [
-  'version'
-]
+version = "2.3.3.dev0"
+
 description = 'Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series, and statistics'
 readme = 'README.md'
 authors = [