Editing Rahul Sankrityayan (section)

== Writings ==

This list emphasizes works bearing on Buddhism, Marxism, and radical social critique; it omits some of Sankrityayan's numerous purely philological, grammatical, and travelogue writings. Bibliographers credit him with about 148 books and 71 articles in total.<ref>Bhattacharya (2005), pp. 205–215.</ref>

* बुद्धचर्या ''Buddhacharya'' (1931). Kashi Vidyapeeth. {{annotation|An early biographical and doctrinal account of the life of the Buddha, produced around the time of Sankrityayan's ordination in Sri Lanka; later reissued in a third edition by the Bharatiya Bauddha Samiti, Lucknow, in 1995. Ober's bibliography dates the work to 1930 and lists a 2011 reprint.}}

* तिब्बती बाल-शिक्षा ''Tibbati Bal-Shiksha'' [''Tibetan Children's Education''], पाठावली ''Pathavali'' (3 vols.), and तिब्बती व्याकरण ''Tibbati Vyakaran'' [''Tibetan Grammar''] (1933). {{annotation|A set of Tibetan-language primers and a grammar, compiled with his Ladakhi collaborator Tsetan Phuntsog for use in Himalayan Buddhist schools.}}

* तिब्बत में बौद्ध धर्म ''Tibbat Mein Bauddha Dharma'' [''Buddhism in Tibet''] (1934). {{annotation|A study of Tibetan Buddhist doctrine and institutions based on Sankrityayan's first two journeys to Tibet, and on manuscripts, block-prints, and oral instruction he obtained there.}}

* साम्यवाद ही क्यों? ''Samyavad hi Kyon?'' [''Why Communism?''] (1935; 2nd ed. 1938, 3rd ed. 1943). Kitab Mahal. {{annotation|A popular primer on communism, its preface signed in Lhasa on August 28, 1935, and dedicated to the memory of the Tibetan king Mune Tsenpo as an early "martyr of communism"; it argues that the Buddhist sangha's communal property system anticipated modern communism, several years before Sankrityayan formally joined the Communist Party of India.}}

* तुम्हारी क्षय ''Tumhari Kshaya'' [''Your Decay''] (1939). {{annotation|A polemic against religion as such, source of the often-quoted line on the incurable "sickness of religions".}}

* मानव समाज ''Manav Samaj'' [''Human Society''] (1942). {{annotation|The second volume of Sankrityayan's "Vaigyanik Bhautikvad" (scientific materialism) series, tracing the evolution of human society through a dialectical-materialist lens; composed largely during his detention at the Deoli internment camp in 1940–41.}}

* वोल्गा से गंगा ''Volga se Ganga'' [''From Volga to Ganga''] (1942). Kitab Mahal. {{annotation|A collection of twenty historical short stories tracing Indo-European migration from the Volga to the Ganges from 6000 BCE to 1942; its later stories are explicitly shaped by Marxist historiography and stage an encounter between an Indian revolutionary and Marx and Engels. In '''[[SR42VGX-T|one story]]''' the Buddha is shown wanting a "revolution" to make the world better.}}

* दर्शन-दिग्दर्शन ''Darshan-Digdarshan'' [''A Survey of Philosophy''] (1944). Kitab Mahal. {{annotation|A comparative history of world philosophy, composed during Sankrityayan's imprisonment, which frames the central conflict in Indian philosophy as one between Brahmanical and non-Brahmanical (notably Buddhist) systems and argues for the latter, subjected in turn to Marxist critique. The ''Bauddh Darshan'' of 1948 is described in its preface as a part of this work.}}

* जय यौधेय ''Jay Yaudheya'' [''Victory to the Yaudheyas''] (1944). {{annotation|A novel set in an ancient republic imagined as a Buddhist-style communist polity.}}

* मेरी जीवन यात्रा ''Meri Jeevan Yatra'' [''My Life's Journey''] (Vol. I, 1944; Vol. II, 1950; Vols. III–IV, 1967). Radhakrishna Prakashan. {{annotation|A multi-volume autobiography narrating Sankrityayan's successive religious and political identities, from Vaishnava sadhu through Arya Samajist and Buddhist monk to Marxist activist; the final volumes appeared posthumously.}}

* बाईसवीं सदी ''Baisvin Sadi'' [''The Twenty-Second Century''] (written 1924, published 1945). Kitab Mahal. {{annotation|A utopian science-fiction novel written during Sankrityayan's imprisonment for participation in the Non-Cooperation Movement, envisioning a future communist world order; it predates his formal turn to Marxism by more than a decade.}}

* घुमक्कड़ शास्त्र ''Ghumakkar Shastra'' [''The Treatise of the Wanderer''] (1948; 2nd ed. 1957). Kitab Mahal. {{annotation|A programmatic and satirical manifesto for a life of perpetual travel, which frames Buddhism as the most congenial of world religions to the wanderer's ethic because of its rejection of caste-purity taboos.}}

* बौद्ध दर्शन ''Bauddh Darshan'' [''Buddhist Philosophy''] (2nd ed. 1948; 1st ed. 1944). Kitab Mahal. {{annotation|Sankrityayan's major treatise on Buddhist philosophy, offering a systematic materialist and rationalist reading of Buddhist metaphysics, the doctrine of ''anatta'', the theory of dependent origination, and Buddhist ethics; later cited by critics as evidence of the persistence of philosophical idealism within his account of Buddhism. Its first chapter, on the Buddha's original teachings, is reported to be a piece written in 1932 and added to the second edition.}}

* मध्य एशिया का इतिहास ''Madhya Asia ka Itihas'' [''History of Central Asia''] (2 vols., 1950s). Bihar Rashtrabhasha Parishad. {{annotation|A monumental history of Central Asia that won Sankrityayan the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1958; it reflects his recurring interest in the transience of civilizations and ideas.}}

* कार्ल मार्क्स ''Karl Marx'' (1950s). {{annotation|A biographical study of Marx, part of Sankrityayan's effort to make Marxist intellectual history accessible to Hindi readers.}}

* लेनिन ''Lenin'' (1950s). {{annotation|A biographical study of Vladimir Lenin and the development of revolutionary Marxism.}}

* स्तालिन ''Stalin'' (1950s). {{annotation|A biographical study reflecting Sankrityayan's engagement with Soviet political history.}}

* माओ त्से तुङ ''Mao Tse Tung'' (1950s). {{annotation|A biographical treatment of Mao Zedong and the Chinese revolutionary experience.}}

* महामानव बुद्ध ''Mahamanav Buddh'' [''The Great Human Being Buddha''] (1956). {{annotation|A Hindi biography of the Buddha; Ober cites a 2011 edition.}}

* "Buddhist Dialectics" (1956?; 1970 in the anthology). In: ''Buddhism: The Marxist Approach'': 1–8. New Delhi: People's Publishing House. {{annotation|Sankrityayan's most concise English-language statement of Buddhism as proto-dialectical philosophy, covering the sangha's economic communism, the theory of dependent origination, the "collectivity of causes," and the pragmatic Buddhist criterion of reality; published in a jointly authored anthology alongside essays by Debiprosad Chattopadhyaya, Y. Balaramamoorty, Ram Bilas Sharma, and Mulk Raj Anand. It says nothing about his own religious identity or ordination.}}

* नवदीक्षित बौद्ध ''Navdikshit Bauddh'' [''The Newly Converted Buddhists''] ([1957] 1975). {{annotation|Listed in Ober's bibliography, edited by Pragyananda Mahasthavir; the connection of this title with the 1957 pamphlet on Ambedkar's conversion mentioned above is not established.}}