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9 April

🇮🇳 In India
1893 Rahul Sankrityayan (Kedarnath Pandey), independence activist, writer and a polyglot who wrote in Hindi, was born. He played a pivotal role in giving travelogue a 'literary form'. He was one of the most widely travelled scholars of India, spending forty-five years of his life on travels away from his home. Sankrityayan is often called the "father of Indian travelogue".
1981 Durgabai Deshmukh, freedom fighter, lawyer, social worker and politician, died. She was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and of the Planning Commission of India.


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