Editing Rahul Sankrityayan (section)

== Secondary Literature in English ==

* Bhartiya, Poonam (2025). "Rahul Sankrityayan and His Contribution to Indian Buddhism: With Special Reference to the Teaching and Philosophy". ''South India Journal of Social Sciences'' 23(4): 99–102. {{annotation|An open-access survey of Sankrityayan's interpretation of the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, the Three Marks of Existence, and the Buddha's "unstated" (avyakata) positions, drawing extensively on ''Darshan-Digdarshan'' and ''Bauddh Darshan''.}}

* Upadhyay, Nishant (2025). "The Wanderer as Becoming: A Satirical Critique of Indian Philosophy and Religions and a Wanderer's Religion". ''Religions'' 16(9): 1147. {{annotation|An open-access analysis of ''Ghumakkar Shastra'', arguing that Sankrityayan uses the figure of the Wanderer to mount a satirical, quasi-scriptural critique of institutional religion, with Buddhism held up as its most congenial exception.}}

* Ober, Douglas (2023). ''Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India''. Stanford University Press. {{annotation|The chapter "When the Buddha Met Marx" situates Sankrityayan alongside Dharmanand Kosambi and reconstructs the broader connections between Buddhist revivalism and Marxism in twentieth-century India.}}

* Basu, Sreyanjana (2019). "Rahul Sankrityayan's (1893–1963) Shift from Buddhism to Marxism: Some Reflections". ''International Journal of Research in Social Sciences'' 9(2): 319–333. {{annotation|A focused examination of the transition from Sankrityayan's Buddhist commitment to Marxism, arguing that his later Marxism did not simply erase his earlier Buddhist thought.}}

* Joshi, Maya (2019). "Rahul Sankrityayan and Ambedkar as Contrapuntal Contemporaries: Unpacking Their 'Metaphysics and Politics'". In: Lal, Vinay (Ed.), ''India and Civilizational Futures: Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics II'': 182–214. Oxford University Press. {{annotation|A comparative study contrasting Sankrityayan's textually engaged, metaphysically retentive Buddhism with B. R. Ambedkar's socially oriented Navayana Buddhism.}}

* Sarao, K.T.S. (2017). "Sankrityayan, Rahul". In: Sarao, K.T.S., & Long, J.D. (Eds.), ''Encyclopedia of Indian Religions: Buddhism and Jainism''. Springer. {{annotation|A concise reference entry summarizing Sankrityayan's biography, travels, and scholarly output.}}

* Chudal, Alaka Atreya (2016). ''A Freethinking Cultural Nationalist: A Life History of Rahul Sankrityayan''. Oxford University Press. {{annotation|The first, and most substantial, book-length scholarly biography of Sankrityayan, tracing his successive identities as sadhu, Arya Samajist, Buddhist monk, and communist against the backdrop of Indian and Nepali nationalism.}}

* Chudal, Alaka Atreya (2015). "Rahul Sankrityayan and the Buddhism of Nepal". ''European Bulletin of Himalayan Research'' 46: 62–87. {{annotation|An open-access study of Sankrityayan's relationship with Nepal and Nepalese Buddhists, including his Tibet-bound journeys through Kathmandu, his friendships with Dharmaman Sahu and Hemraj Sharma, and his oblique but sympathetic relationship to Nepal's underground Theravada movement.}}

* Joshi, Maya (2009). "Rahul Sankrityayan's Journeys of the Self: Nation, Culture, Identity". ''Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences'' 16(1&2): 119–147. {{annotation|A close reading of Sankrityayan's autobiography ''Meri Jeevan Yatra'' and his travel manifesto ''Ghumakkar Shastra'', tracing his movement from Vaishnavism through Arya Samaj and Buddhism to Marxism and situating this trajectory within debates on Indian nationalism and selfhood.}}

* Dhone, Viplov (n.d.). "Two Marxist Perspectives on the Buddha: Rahul Sankrityayan and Debiprasad Chattopadhyay". ''Sambhāṣaṇ'' 2(1–2). {{annotation|A comparative analysis of two Indian Marxist interpretations of Buddhism, useful for situating Sankrityayan within the wider development of Marxist readings of Indian philosophy.}}

* Bhattacharya, Ramkrishna (1994). "From Buddha to Marx". In: Chattopadhyaya, Alaka (Ed.), ''Essays in Indology: Birth Centenary Tribute to Mahapandita Rahula Sankrityayana''. Manisha Granthalaya. {{annotation|A critical engagement with Sankrityayan's characterization of Buddhism as historically status-quoist, arguing instead, with Debiprosad Chattopadhyaya and D. D. Kosambi, for reading early Buddhism as a form of primitive communism with genuine transformative potential.}}