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Dashrath Manjhi (14 January 1934 [1] – 17 August 2007 [2]), also known as Mountain Man, [3] was an Indian laborer from Gehlaur village, near Gaya in the eastern ...
Manjhi – The Mountain Man is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language biographical film based on the life of Dashrath Manjhi.Manjhi, widely known as the "Mountain Man", was a poor labourer in Gehlaur village, near Gaya in Bihar, India, who carved a path 9.1 metres (30 ft) wide and 110 metres (360 ft) long through a hill 7.6 metres (25 ft) high, using only a hammer and chisel. [4]
Gehlaur was the home of the legendary ‘Mountain Man’ Dashrath Manjhi.He was a poor man who worked as a labourer in Gehlaur village. He carved a path through a mountain in the Gehlaur Hills using only a hammer and chisel as his tools because his village did not have easy access to a hospital.
Manjhi, sometimes recorded as Majhwar and as Majhi, [1] is a community in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, where they are classified as a Scheduled Tribe for the purposes of India's system of positive discrimination, however, Majhi from West Bengal and Odisha fall separately.
Manjhi may refer to: Manjhi - The Mountain Man, 2015 Indian biographical film about Dashrath Manjhi; Manjhi (tribe), a tribe found in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar; Manjhi (Vidhan Sabha constituency), assembly constituency in Saran district, Bihar, India; Dashrath Manjhi, Indian labourer; Jitan Ram Manjhi, Indian politician from ...
Dashrath is a given name. It may refer to: Dashrath Chand (1903-1941) Nepalese politician, martyr of Nepalese Democratic Movement; Dashrath Gagrai, Indian politician and member of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly; Dashrath Manjhi (1934–2007), Indian laborer; Dashrath Patel (1927–2010), Indian designer, sculptor
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They are also known as Rishidev, Sada, Manjhi, Banbasi. [2] The other names of the Musahar are Bhuiyan and Rajawar. [ 3 ] Their name literally means 'rats-ridder' due to their main former occupation of catching rats, and there are many who are still forced to do this work due to destitution and poverty.