of Sankrityayan's works] Bharati Puri, Traveller on the Silk Road: Rites and Routes of Passage in Rahul Sankrityayan’s Himalayan Wanderlust, China Report (Sage: New Delhi), February 2011, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 37–58. Alaka Atreya Chudal, A Freethinking Cultural Nationalist: A Life History of Rahul Sankrityayan'', Oxford University Press, 2016. () 1893 births 1963 deaths Bhojpuri-language writers Hindi-language writers People from Azamgarh district Indian Indologists 20th-century Indian translators 20th-century Indian linguists Indian Buddhists Indian Marxists Writers from Uttar Pradesh Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education Indian Sanskrit scholars Tibetologists Newar studies scholars Indian travel writers Prisoners and detainees of British India Indian male novelists 20th-century Indian biographers Indian autobiographers Indian social reformers 20th-century Indian novelists 20th-century Indian short story writers Scholars from Uttar Pradesh Indian former Hindus 20th-century Buddhist monks Indian Buddhist monks Indian scholars of Buddhism