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Date of Birth
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09-April-1893
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Place of Birth
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Pandaha
(Uttar Pradesh)
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Nationality
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India
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Also know as
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RÄhula SÄá¹…krÌ¥tyÄyana, Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Kedarnath Pandey
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Profession
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Writer, Polymath, Historian, Scientist, Playwright, Essayist, Science
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Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, who is called the Father of Hindi Travel literature, 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 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 to as the 'Greatest Scholar' for his scholarship. He was both a polymath as well as a polyglot.
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