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View Shreyas Thiagarajasubramanian’s full profile. Your colleagues, classmates, and 500 million other professionals are on LinkedIn. View Shreyas’ Full Profile. Rahul Sankrityayan (9 April 1893 – 14 April 1963), is called the Father of Hindi Travelogue Travel literature. He is the one who played a pivotal role to give travelogue a 'literature.
Bust of Sankrityayan in Born Azamgarh Uttar Pradesh 1893 4 9}},, Died 14 April 1963 (1963-04-14) (aged 70),, Occupation Writer, essayist, scholar, sociology, indian nationalist, history,, philosophy,,,,, Textual Editing,, Science, drama, Politics,, Nationality Indian Notable awards 1958: 1963: Rahul Sankrityayan (9 April 1893 – 14 April 1963), is called the Father of Hindi Travelogue. He is the one who played a pivotal role to give travelogue a 'literature form', was one of the most widely travelled scholars of, spending forty-five years of his life on travels away from his home. He travelled to many places and wrote many travelogue approximately in the same ratio. He is also famously known for his authentic description about his travels experiences, for instance- in his travelogue 'Meri Laddakh Yatra' he presents overall regional, historical and cultural specificity of that region judiciously. He became a Buddhist monk ( Bauddha ) and eventually took up.
Sankrityayan was also an Indian nationalist, having been arrested and jailed for three years for creating anti-British writings and speeches. He is referred to as the 'Greatest Scholar' ( Mahapandit) for his scholarship.
He was both a as well as a. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the in 1963. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Childhood [ ] He was born as Kedarnath Pandey in a poor family on 9 April 1893 in Pandha Village and his ancestral village is Kanila Chakarpanur village, district, in Eastern.
He received formal schooling at a local primary school, though he later studied and mastered numerous languages independently, as well as the art of photography. Philosophy of his Life [ ] In his initial days he was a keen follower of of Swami.
Buddhism came to him and changed his life. He lost faith in God's existence but still retained faith in reincarnation. Later he moved towards Marxist Socialism and rejected the concepts of reincarnation and afterlife also. The two volumes of Darshan-Digdarshan, the collected history of World's Philosophy give an indication of his philosophy when we find the second volume much dedicated to 's. This he discovered in Tibetan translation from Tibet. Travels [ ] Sankrityayan's travels took him to different parts of India including,,. He also travelled to several other countries including,,,, China, and the former.
He spent several years in the 'Parsa Gadh' village in the in. The village's entry gate is named 'Rahul Gate'. Granado espada bot. While travelling, he mostly used surface transport, and he went to certain countries clandestinely; he entered Tibet as a. He made several trips to Tibet and brought valuable paintings and and back to India.
Most of these were a part of the libraries of and Universities. These objects had been taken to Tibet by fleeing during the twelfth and subsequent centuries when the invading Muslim armies had destroyed universities in India. Some accounts state that Rahul Sankrityayan employed twenty-two mules to bring these materials from Tibet to India.,, has a special section of these materials in his honour, where a number of these and other items have been displayed. Books [ ] Sankrityayan was a, well versed in several and, including,,,,,,,,,,, French and Russian. He was also an, a theoretician, and a creative writer. He started writing during his twenties and his works, totalling well over 100, covered a variety of subjects, including sociology, history, philosophy,,,,, textual editing,, science, drama, and politics.
Many of these were unpublished. He translated from into. Rahul's Tombstone at.This tombstone is established at a place called 'Murda Haati' which is a cremation ground downtown in the lower altitudes of Darjeeling around 25 minutes drive from the ChowRasta.The same place also has the tombstone of.