![]() ![]() Volga se Ganga, Sankrityayan's most popular book, is a genre-defying work of historical fiction that seeks to track the migration of peoples from the bank of the Volga in 6000 bce to the banks of the Ganga in 1942, the year it first came out. He was conferred the Padma Bhushan in 1963. A founding member of the Communist Party of India in Bihar, he was imprisoned for three years by the colonial government. Ever the seeker, he moved where his learning led him - from the Arya Samaj, to Buddhism, to Marxism. ![]() ![]() He even authored a science-fiction novel, Baisvin Sadi. A pioneering explorer-traveller, he is known not only for his travelogues but also for contributions to history, philosophy, memoir-writing, polemics, biography, drama, translation, lexicography, critical commentary on and emendation of rare Buddhist philosophical texts recovered from Tibet, and diverse fiction, mostly historical. Rahul Sankrityayan (1893-1963) was a polymath and polyglot. ![]()
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