Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian linguist, author, and scholar (died 1963)

Rahul Sankrityayan

Indian scholar and author (1893–1963)

Rahul Sankrityayan 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…