Rahul Sankrityayan (महापंडित राहुल सांकृत्यायन) (April 9, 1893 - April 14, 1963) who is called the Father of Hindi Travel literature (यात्रा वृतांत) was one of the most widely-traveled scholars of India, spending forty-five years of his life on travels away from his home. He became a buddhist monk (Bauddh Bhikkhu) and eventually took up Marxist Socialism. Sankrityayan was also an Indian nationalist, having been arrested and jailed for three years...
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Rahul Sankrityayan (महापंडित राहुल सांकृत्यायन) (April 9, 1893 - April 14, 1963) who is called the Father of Hindi Travel literature (यात्रा वृतांत) was one of the most widely-traveled scholars of India, spending forty-five years of his life on travels away from his home. He became a buddhist monk (Bauddh Bhikkhu) and eventually took up Marxist Socialism. Sankrityayan was also an Indian nationalist, having been arrested and jailed for three years for creating anti-British writings and speeches. He is referred as the Greatest Scholar of all time (Mahapandit) for his scholarships. He was both a polymath as well as a polyglot.
He was born Kedarnath Pandey on 9 April 1893 to an Orthodox Hindu- Brahmin family in Pandaha Village of Azamgarh district, in Eastern Uttar Pradesh. His father, Govardhan Pandey, was a religious-minded farmer, a typical profession of Bhumihar Brahmins, from the village Kanaila of Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh. His mother, Kulawanti, used to stay with her...
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