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Rahul Sankrityayan (born Kedarnath 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.
Apr 30, 2021 · In 1930, he changed his name from Kedarnath Pandey to Rahul Sankrityayan. The name “Rahul” comes from the son of the Buddha’s bodhisattva life and “Sankrityayan” was taken from his clan name “Sankritya.” Sankrityayan remained active in political activities in addition to his learning.
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 · Here, he took the name Rahul Sankrityayan and was known for the rest of his life by this name although he later gave up Buddhism in favour of Marxism; He extensively travelled through Kashmir, Ladakh and Nepal and visited Tibet four times.
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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.
Apr 11, 2018 · Rahul Sankrityayan was born on April 9, 1893, in a small village of Azamgarh district, Uttar Pradesh, as Kedar Pandey. Acquiring formal education only until middle school, he left home in his teens and settled in Varanasi, where he learnt Sanskrit with a group of other students.
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.
