WRITER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rahul Sankrityayan has received more than 602,504 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Rahul Sankrityayan is the 2,276th most popular writer (down from 2,099th in 2019), the 291st most popular biography from India (down from 249th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 600k

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  • 55.23

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Siṃha Senāpati
1945
Merī jīvana yātrā
Authors, Hindi, Biography, Hindi Authors
Autobiography of T. Prakasam, 1872-1957, nationalist and former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.
1950
Sāhitya nibandhāvali
Hindi philology
1949
Buddha-caryyā
Teachings
On the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha.
1931
Bāīsavīṃ sadī
1943
Jaya yaudheya
1946

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rahul Sankrityayan ranks 2,276 out of 7,302. Before him are Edward Bunker, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, August von Platen-Hallermünde, Fritz Leiber, John W. Campbell, and Henri Desgrange. After him are Christina Rossetti, Heinrich Glarean, Tomé Pires, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Robert Ressler, and Harold Bloom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Rahul Sankrityayan ranks 103. Before him are Gaston Julia, Nestor Lakoba, Israel Joshua Singer, Mikheil Gelovani, Luis Otero, and Haykanoush Danielyan. After him are Léopold Szondi, Alois Hába, Beatrice Wood, Harold Laski, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Farabundo Martí. Among people deceased in 1963, Rahul Sankrityayan ranks 72. Before him are Jacob Gade, Jacques Villon, Sarit Thanarat, Seth Barnes Nicholson, Margaret Murray, and Ernst Kantorowicz. After him are Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Richard Kohn, Robert Stroud, Edith Hamilton, Ernesto Lecuona, and Karl Amadeus Hartmann.

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In India

Among people born in India, Rahul Sankrityayan ranks 291 out of 1,861. Before him are Margaret Murray (1863), P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921), Alamgir II (1699), Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897), Mohammed Rafi (1924), and Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350). After him are Hyder Ali (1720), M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916), Jaggi Vasudev (1957), Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886), Sarada Devi (1853), and M. S. Swaminathan (1925).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Rahul Sankrityayan ranks 45. Before him are Mir Taqi Mir (1723), Surdas (1478), Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642), D. R. Bendre (1896), Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908), and Shakuntala Devi (1929). After him are Jaggi Vasudev (1957), M. Karunanidhi (1924), T. H. White (1906), Jim Corbett (1875), Bhavabhuti (null), and Zeb-un-Nissa (1638).

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