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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, 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. He was one of the most widely travelled scholars of India, spending forty-five years of his life on travels away from his home in locations like Russia, Tibet, China, Central Asia, etc.Knowing around 30 languages including English, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Tibetan, Sanskrit, Pali, Russian, Arabic, etc., Sankrityayan almost always wrote in Hindi. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rahul Sankrityayan has received more than 562,777 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Rahul Sankrityayan is the 2,106th most popular writer (up from 2,823rd in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from India (up from 306th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rahul Sankrityayan ranks 2,106 out of 5,755. Before him are Fritz Leiber, Nguyễn Du, Samuil Marshak, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Ludwig Uhland, and Sven Nordqvist. After him are Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Hamdallah Mustawfi, Jean Paulhan, Hallgrímur Pétursson, and Jacques Collin de Plancy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Rahul Sankrityayan ranks 95. Before him are Raymond Dart, Israel Joshua Singer, Marianne Brandt, William Moulton Marston, Gaston Julia, and Miloš Crnjanski. After him are Vera Brittain, George Ohsawa, Mikheil Gelovani, José Calvo Sotelo, Ben Hecht, and Jean Absil. Among people deceased in 1963, Rahul Sankrityayan ranks 67. Before him are Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Ernst Kantorowicz, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Gustaf Gründgens, Fazlollah Zahedi, and Sarit Thanarat. After him are Ngô Đình Nhu, Ernesto Lecuona, Jacques Villon, Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Camille Chautemps, and Alan Gardiner.

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In India

Among people born in India, Rahul Sankrityayan ranks 252 out of 1,493. Before him are Nizamuddin Auliya (1238), Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861), Viswanathan Anand (1969), Anna Hazare (1937), Guru Amar Das (1479), and K. Kamaraj (1903). After him are Velu Nachiyar (1730), Jaggi Vasudev (1957), Shakuntala Devi (1929), Sanghamitta (-281), Idries Shah (1924), and Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Rahul Sankrityayan ranks 40. Before him are Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942), Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907), Surdas (1478), D. R. Bendre (1896), and Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642). After him are Jaggi Vasudev (1957), Shakuntala Devi (1929), Idries Shah (1924), Zeb-un-Nissa (1638), Mir Taqi Mir (1723), and Bhavabhuti (null).

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