# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rahul-sankrityayan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:21:14.184Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/rahul-sankrityayan"
name: "Rahul Sankrityayan"
slug: "rahul-sankrityayan"
description: "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 most widely travelled scholars of India, spending forty-five years away from his home, exploring regions such as Russia, Tibet, China, and Central Asia."
tagline: "Indian Buddhist scholar, polyglot and travel writer (1893–1963); 'Father of Hindi travel literature'"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1893-04-09"
deathDate: "1963-04-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump