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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.Today is the Birthday Day Of Rahul Sankrityayan who was born on April 9, 1893 In Azamgarh district, in Eastern Uttar Pradesh
Rahul Sankrityayan (1893-1963) was a prolific polymath, whose output of well over a hundred books covers biography, travelogue, literature, religion, history, politics and lexicography, in addition to an impressive amount of prose fiction: unsurprisingly, he is dubbed mahapandit. He travelled widely; visits to communist countries converted his Congress socialism into fully-fledged communism in the late 1930s, and an extended stay in Ceylon led him to adopt the Buddhist faith in preference to the orthodox and Arya Samajist Hinduism to which he had adhered earlier.
Sankrityayan's autobiography, Merl fivan-yatra, fills five lengthy volumes. It is largely informally written, with vocabulary taken unselfconsciously from whichever register suits the subject-matter. Interest is sustained by a skilful weaving together of description and narrative, and although the casual admission 'I don't remember much about.. is a stock formula, the autobiography makes a fascinating and sensitive record of childhood in a village near Benares at the turn of the century. The reader is constantly reminded, as at the beginning of this passage, of the precariousness of life before the availability of modern medicine; and also of the great dynamism and complexity of tradition which underlies every
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Block of Four Stamps On Rahul Sankrityayan
| Number | NYA |
| Stamp Name | Rahul Sankrityayan |
| Stamp Denomination | 100 |
| Stamp Issue Date | 09/04/2011 |
| Stamp Currency | Paise |
| Stamp Type | Multicolored |
| Stamp Perforation | 13x 13 1/2 |
| Stamp Paper Used | Un-watermarked Adhesive Coated Stamp Paper |
| Stamp Printed At | ISP |
| Number Printed | 0.6 Million |
| Number In Sheet | 35 |
| Printing Process | Photogravure |
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