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Rahul Sankrityayan

1893 - 1963

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Rahul Sankrityayan (born Kedarnath Pandey; 9 April 1893 – 14 April 1963) was an Indian author, essayist, playwright, historian, and scholar of Buddhism who wrote in Hindi and Bhojpuri. Known as the "father of Hindi travel literature", Sankrityayan played a pivotal role in giving Hindi travelogue a literary form. He was one of the most widely travelled scholars of India, spending forty-five years away from his home, exploring regions such as Russia, Tibet, China, and Central Asia. Knowing around 30 languages including English, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Tibetan, Sanskrit, Pali, Russian, Arabic, etc., Sankrityayan almost always wrote in Hindi. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rahul Sankrityayan is the 3,145th most popular writer (down from 2,276th in 2019), the 418th most popular biography from India (down from 291st in 2019) and the 51st most popular Indian Writer.

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Among writers, Rahul Sankrityayan ranks 3,145 out of 7,302. Before him are Roberto Calasso, Jean Desmarets, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, Walter Hasenclever, and Béla Király. After him are Olaudah Equiano, Juan Fernández de Heredia, Edward Gorey, Eduard Vilde, D. R. Bendre, and Dámaso Alonso.

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Among people born in 1893, Rahul Sankrityayan ranks 154. Before him are Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Hilda Geiringer, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Freya Stark, Herbert Read, and Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony. After him are Vicente Huidobro, Archduke Leo Karl of Austria, Olga Baclanova, Huey Long, Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, and Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis. Among people deceased in 1963, Rahul Sankrityayan ranks 95. Before him are Marie Marvingt, André Maschinot, Shinobu Ishihara, Adolphe Menjou, Joseph Sweeney, and Alan Gardiner. After him are Elmore James, Maria Tănase, August Rei, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, and Pierre Blanchar.

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In India

Among people born in India, Rahul Sankrityayan ranks 418 out of 1,861. Before him are Navneet Aditya Waiba (null), Motilal Nehru (1861), Nirmala Srivastava (1923), Kishore Kumar (1929), Jaya Prada (1962), and Asha Bhosle (1933). After him are M. N. Roy (1887), D. R. Bendre (1896), Margaret Abbott (1878), Viswanathan Anand (1969), Man Singh I (1550), and Zail Singh (1916).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Rahul Sankrityayan ranks 51. Before him are Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908), T. H. White (1906), Subramania Bharati (1882), Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642), Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897), and M. Karunanidhi (1924). After him are D. R. Bendre (1896), Bhavabhuti (null), Ravindra Prabhat (1969), Shudraka (500), Shibli Nomani (1857), and Ram Prasad Bismil (1897).

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