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Rahul Sankrityayan (born Kedar Pandey; 9 April 1893 – 14 April 1963) was an Indian author, essayist, playwright, historian, scholar of Buddhism who wrote in Hindi and Bhojpuri. Known as "father of Hindi travel literature", Sankrityayan played a pivotal role in giving Hindi travelogue a literary form.
राहुल सांकृत्यायन (9 अप्रैल 1893 – 14 अप्रैल 1963) जिन्हें महापंडित की उपाधि दी जाती है हिंदी के एक प्रमुख साहित्यकार थे। वे एक प्रतिष्ठित बहुभाषाविद् थे और बीसवीं सदी के पूर्वार्ध में उन्होंने यात्रा वृतांत/यात्रा साहित्य तथा विश्व-दर्शन के क्षेत्र में साहित्यिक योगदान किए। वह हिंदी यात्रासाहित्य के पितामह कहे जाते हैं। बौद्ध धर्म पर उनका शोध ह...
Rahul Sankrityayan was born on 9 April, 1893, in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh. Much like his celebrated magnum opus, Volga se Ganga, his life was an accumulation of myriad experiences and knowledge, which he penned down for posterity.
Feb 7, 2020 · FROM 1929 TO 1938, an Indian scholar called Rahul Sankrityayan discovered a number of Sanskrit manuscripts in mid-western Tibetan monasteries that ‘shaped the very basis of modern scholarship in the field [of Madhyamaka philosophy and, in general, Buddhist epistemology]’, in the words of Ernst Steinkellner, one of the great scholars of ...
Jun 23, 2018 · Remembering Rahul Sankrityayan, the traveller who invented Hindi travelogue and knew more than 30 languages. His published works numbering more than 135 ranged from travelogues, sociology, history, religion, Tibetology, fiction, science, drama, essays and more.
May 5, 2021 · The man who was determined to return this part of India’s lost heritage was the famous traveller, scholar and writer, Rahul Sankrityayan, who at some point also became a Buddhist monk. But this was no ordinary mission.
Apr 20, 2017 · Rahul Sankrityayan spent three years in jail on account of his anti-British political activities. He joined the communist party while it was still facing a ban.
Rahul Sankrityayan invented the Hindi travelogue. By the time he died, at the age of 70, he had written about 140 books, a Sahitya Akademi winning seminal history, Madhya Asia ka Itihaas,...
Jan 1, 2017 · Rahul Sankrityayan, often called mahāpaṇḍita (great scholar), was one of the most widely travelled scholars of India, who spent 45 years of his life on travel and away from home. He became a Buddhist monk and eventually moved towards Marxist Socialism.
Rahul Sankrityayan (1893-1963), the partially-remembered polymath, deserves a closer, clearer look. Based on a decade-long engagement with the subject, the illustrated talk will delineate the major contours of his remarkable intellectual and political growth, and dwell on ways in which his vast oeuvre compels us to join him in his adventurous ...
