Rahul Sankrityayan on Peasant Issues: with Aspect of their Social and Economic Questions

Abstract

An important contribution to the realm of Indian literature and its historical evolution has been made by Rahul Sankrityayan. Specifically, his immense contributions to Buddhism turned out to be a turning point in the growth of Buddhism in contemporary India. Rahul was a man who wrote on multidimensional topics in which philosophy, politics, history, social and cultural issues were important. He was also a great wanderer and the main purpose of his wandering was to collect more and more knowledge and information on related places. From all his contributions his socio-economic approach was also tremendous. Rahul was not an absolute religious person but an intellectual socialist. In his writings, he is more realistic than idealistic because in most of his writing he presents contemporary conditions of India. He was aware of the peasants’ issues during 20th century and he continue took part of those movements especially during the decade of 1930s. He actively participated in that movement as a writer and also as an activist. He wrote different literature on the socio-economic issues and also presented ideas for the progressive society.