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A Dialogical Travel through History
From Volga to Ganga by Rahul Sankrityayan translated by V G Kiernan and Kanwal Dhaliwal and edited by Kanwal Dhaliwal and Maya Joshi, Delhi: Leftword, 2021; pp 380, `595.
Rahul Sankrityayan (1893–1963) was one of the most protean figures of 20th-century India: a philosopher, historian, and litterateur; Buddhist, Marxist, and nationalist—a man committed to change and personal growth over the certainties of religion or politics. As he once observed,
The belief that led me to become an Arya Samaji from a sanatandharmi, then from an Arya Samaji to a Buddhist, afterwards leaving Buddhism to become a communist; if my beliefs suffer a blow, I will leave the communist party as well. [translation mine] (quoted in Chudal 2016: 257)
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