RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Dashrath Manjhi

1934 - 2007

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Dashrath Manjhi (14 January 1934 – 17 August 2007), also known as the Mountain Man, was an Indian laborer from Gehlaur village, near Gaya in the eastern state of Bihar. When his wife died in 1959 after being injured from falling from a mountain and due to the same mountain blocking easy access to a nearby hospital in time, he decided to carve a 110-metre-long (360 ft), 9.1-metre-wide (30 ft), and 7.7-metre-deep (25 ft) path through a ridge of hills using only a hammer and a chisel. After 22 years of work, Dashrath shortened travel between the Atri and Wazirganj blocks of Gaya district from 70 km (43 mi) to 1 km (0.62 mi). He travelled to New Delhi to get recognition of his work and was rewarded by then Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dashrath Manjhi is the 1,723rd most popular religious figure (down from 1,298th in 2019), the 326th most popular biography from India (down from 232nd in 2019) and the 34th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Dashrath Manjhi ranks 1,723 out of 3,187. Before him are Asma bint Umais, Neophyte of Bulgaria, Giuseppe Betori, Stephen II of Constantinople, Ashkenaz, and James Gibbons. After him are Lubaba bint al-Harith, Marie of the Incarnation, Antonios Naguib, João I of Kongo, Jerzy Radziwiłł, and Hōjō Ujimasa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Dashrath Manjhi ranks 159. Before him are Ellis Marsalis Jr., Sergio Balanzino, Henri Konan Bédié, Viktor Gorbatko, Umberto Agnelli, and Raina Kabaivanska. After him are Al Freeman Jr., Alan Bates, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Victor French, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, and Lakhdar Brahimi. Among people deceased in 2007, Dashrath Manjhi ranks 131. Before him are Andranik Margaryan, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, George Tabori, Joe Rantz, Marais Viljoen, and Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza. After him are Sa'dun Hammadi, Delbert Mann, José Luis de Vilallonga, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, Andrej Kvašňák, Charles Lane, and June Almeida.

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In India

Among people born in India, Dashrath Manjhi ranks 326 out of 1,861. Before him are Bhāskara I (600), Savitri (1936), Sundar Pichai (1972), Vijay (1974), Nizamuddin Auliya (1238), and Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905). After him are Vikram (1966), Vidya Balan (1979), Malaika Arora (1973), Udham Singh (1899), Tilopa (928), and Saint Alphonsa (1910).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Dashrath Manjhi ranks 34. Before him are Abbé Faria (1756), Joseph Coutts (1945), Meher Baba (1894), Guru Amar Das (1479), Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856), and Zakir Naik (1965). After him are Tilopa (928), Saint Alphonsa (1910), Inayat Khan (1882), Wahiduddin Khan (1925), Ivan Dias (1936), and Varkey Vithayathil (1927).

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