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Rahul Sankrityayan. Rahul Sankrityayan (born Kedarnath Pandey; 9 April 1893 – 14 April 1963) was an Indian author, essayist, playwright, historian, scholar of Buddhism who wrote in Hindi and Bhojpuri. Known as "father of Hindi travel literature", Sankrityayan played a pivotal role in giving Hindi travelogue a literary form.
Indian Journals: March 1962 – May 1963 is a travel diary by American poet Allen Ginsberg, first published by Dave Haselwood Books and City Lights Books in 1970.. The journal is a collection of recollections, reflections, photographs, sketches, poems and associative ephemera from Ginsberg's journey in India with partner Peter Orlovsky between 1962 and 1963.
Literature. The genre of travel literature or travelogue encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs. [1] One early travel memoirist in Western literature was Pausanias, a Greek geographer of the 2nd century CE. In the early modern period, James Boswell 's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1786) helped shape ...
Literature of Adi kal (c. before the 15th century CE) was developed in the regions of Kannauj, Delhi, Ajmer stretching up to central India. [4] Prithviraj Raso, an epic poem written by Chand Bardai (1149 – c. 1200), is considered one of the first works in the Bhraj Bhasha literature.Chand Bardai was a court poet of Prithviraj Chauhan, the famous ruler of Delhi and Ajmer during the invasion ...
Volga Se Ganga. Volga Se Ganga (Hindi: वोल्गा से गंगा, English: From Volga to Ganga) is a 1943 collection of 20 historical fiction short-stories by scholar and travel writer Rahul Sankrityayan. The stories collectively trace the migration of Indo-Iranian peoples from the Eurasian steppes to regions around the Volga; and ...
Dilip D'Souza. Manglesh Dabral. William Dalrymple. Pravin Darji. Manoj Das. Nabaneeta Dev Sen. Devan (writer) Savitri Devi. Parvez Dewan.
sahitya-akademi.gov.in. The Sahitya Akademi, India 's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. [1] Founded on 12 March 1954, it is supported by, though independent of the Indian government. Its office is located in Rabindra Bhavan near Mandi House in Delhi.
The award was established by Kendriya Hindi Sansthan in 1989 on the name of the Rahul Sankrityayan, considered to be father of Hindi travel literature. It was first awarded in 1993 to Dr. Kamala Sankrityayan & Dr. Shyam Singh Rashi. Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan Award is awarded for the development travelogue & research and analytical works in ...