Dashrath Manjhi
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Dashrath Manjhi
Dashrath Manjhi (1934[1] – 17 August 2007[2]) was born into a poor labourer family
in Gehlaur village near Gaya in Bihar,
India.[1] He is also known as Mountain Man.[3][4] Manjhi's wife, Falguni Devi, died due
to lack of medical treatment because the nearest town with a doctor was 70
kilometres (43 mi) away from their village in Bihar, India.
Manjhi did not
want anyone else to suffer the same fate as his wife, so he carved a path
360-foot-long (110 m) through-cut,
25-foot-deep (7.6 m) in places and 30-foot-wide (9.1 m) to form a
road[5] through a mountain in the Gehlour
hills, working day and night for 22 years from 1960 to 1982. His feat reduced
the distance between the Atri and Wazirganj blocks of the Gaya district from
55 km to 15 km, bringing him national acclaim.[2][6][7] He died on 17 August 2007.[8] He was given a state funeral by the Government of Bihar.[8][9] He is survived by Son Bhagirath Manjhi.[10]
In popular culture
In July 2010,
director Manish Jha announced a film, Manjhi, based
on the life of Dashrath Manjhi. The film is produced by Sanjay Singh, who
previously produced Udaan (2010).[11] Manjhi's story was shown on Aamir Khan's show Satyamev Jayate.[12][13] Nawazuddin Siddiqui
has been cast in the lead role in the film Mountain Man, which is based
on Manjhi's life.[14] In Olave Mandara, a Kannada film by
Jayatheertha, Manjhi's deeds are referred to in the story, which inspires the
young hero's love.
The First
Episode of Season 2 of Aamir Khan hosted TV
Show Satyamev Jayate,
scheduled to be aired in March 2014, has been reported to be dedicated to
Dashrath Manjhi. [10]
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^ Jump up to: a b "Love's labour brings down hill".
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2.
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Hindustan Times. 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2012-09-22.
3.
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4.
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Indian Express. 1 July 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-22.
5.
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24.877093°N 85.242956°E
24.877093°N 85.242956°E
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Times Of India. 23 July 2007.
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DNA India. 18 August 2007.
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Success Stories. 31 July 2012.
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^ Jump up to: a b "Dasrath Manjhi’s family awaits Aamir Khan to tell his
glorious Tale". IANS. news.biharprabha.com. Retrieved 24
February 2014.
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Times of India. 19 Jul 2010.
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of India". Zeenews.india.com. 30 July 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-22.
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mountain, literally". The Hindu. Retrieved 2012-09-22.
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दशरथ मांझी
मुक्त ज्ञानकोश विकिपीडिया से
दशरथ मांझी
(१९३४[1]
– १७
अगस्त २००७[2])
एक दृढ़संकल्प के व्यक्ति थे जिन्होने अकेले ही पहाड़ काटकर रास्ता बना दिया। वे बिहार
के गया
जिले के निवासी थे।[3]
१७ फ़रवरी २००७ को कैंसर के कारण मांझी का निधन हो गया।[4][5]
सन्दर्भ
1.
ऊपर जायें ↑ अविनाश सेलेस्टीन
(२४ मई १९९७). "Love's labour brings down hill [श्रम से प्यार करने वाला पहाड़ी को भी नीचे
लाता है]" (अंग्रेज़ी में).
एक्सप्रेस इण्डिया. अभिगमन तिथि: २६ फ़रवरी २०१४.
2.
ऊपर जायें ↑ "Mountain man Dashrath Manjhi dies in Delhi [माउंटेन मैन दशरथ मांझी का दिल्ली में
निधन]" (अंग्रेज़ी में). हिन्दुस्तान टाइम्स.
१७ अगस्त २००७. अभिगमन तिथि: २६ फ़रवरी २०१४.
3.
ऊपर जायें ↑ मनीष शांडिल्य (26
फ़रवरी 2014). "दशरथ मांझी से बहुत प्रेरणा मिलती
हैः आमिर". बीबीसी हिन्दी.
अभिगमन तिथि: 26 फ़रवरी 2014.
4.
ऊपर जायें ↑ "दशरथ मांझी से प्रभावित हुये आमिर खान".
लाइव हिन्दुस्तान. २० फ़रवरी २०१४. अभिगमन तिथि: २६ फ़रवरी २०१४.
5.
ऊपर जायें ↑ रंजीत सिंह (१९
फ़रवरी २०१४). "दशरथ मांझी के गांव से आमिर खान शुरू
करेंगे 'सत्यमेव जयते'". आजतक. अभिगमन तिथि:
२६ फ़रवरी २०१४.
बाहरी कड़ियाँ
The Man Who Made War on a Mountain
Dashrath Manjhi was given a State funeral last weekend. During his life,
however, government indifference remained as much a challenge for him as the
rocks of Gahlaur Ghati, says Anand ST Das
He was ridiculed in 1959 when he started hewing a way through the Gahlaur Ghati hills of Bihar’s Gaya district, some 150 km from Patna. It would take 22
He was ridiculed in 1959 when he started hewing a way through the Gahlaur Ghati hills of Bihar’s Gaya district, some 150 km from Patna. It would take 22
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FOR
THE PEOPLE:
Manjhi’s feat will long outlive him
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years for Dashrath Manjhi to finish
his 360ft-long, 30ft-wide road — little wonder, for he worked alone, his sole
tools his chisel,hammer and shovel. What was once a precarious passage just a
foot wide is now an avenue that can accommodate cyclists and motorcyclists and
is used by the people of nearly 60 villages with great ease. The road has also
reduced the distance between Gaya’s Atri and Vazirganj subdivisions from 50km
to just 10km. Children from Manjhi’s own Gahlaur and other nearby villages no
longer have to walk eight kilometres one way to attend school — they can now
study at a school just three km away.
We met Manjhi a few weeks before the cancer that finally ended his life on August 17 forced him to take to his bed. The 73- year-old was frail, but his energy was undiminished as he relived his work on the road. “I knew if I did not do it myself, neither would the government do it nor would the villagers have the will and determination. This hill had given us trouble and grief for centuries. The people had asked the government many times to make a proper road through the hill, but nobody paid any attention. So I just decided I would do it all by myself.”
Before Manjhi’s road, the hill kept the villages of the region in isolation, forcing the villagers to make an arduous and dangerous trek just to reach the nearest market town, or even their own fields. In 1959, Manjhi recounted, this resulted in a family tragedy on the treacherous slope. “My wife, Faguni Devi, was seriously injured while crossing the hill to bring me water; I worked then on a farm across the hills. That was the day I decided to carve out a proper road through this hill,” he told us. The mission he had set himself meant that he had to drop his wage-earning daily work — his family suffered and he himself often went without food. But his wife was not to see the fruits of his labour — a short while later, she fell ill and died as Manjhi could not get her to the hospital in time. “My love for my wife was the initial spark that ignited in me the desire to carve out a road. But what kept me working without fear or worry all those years was the desire to see thousands of villagers crossing the hill with ease whenever they wanted,” Manjhi said. “Though most villagers taunted me at first, there were quite a few who lent me support later by giving me food and helping me buy my tools.” Today, the villagers have nothing but gratitude for Gaya’s mountain man, known almost universally now as Sadhuji.
Dashrath Manjhi belonged to Bihar’s Musahar community, regarded as the lowest among the state’s Scheduled Castes. While other Dalits in Bihar had at least some land rights under the erstwhile zamindari system, the Musahars never enjoyed any such. Nearly 98 percent of the state’s 1.3 million Musahars are landless today. Not even one percent of them are literate, which makes them the community with the country’s lowest literacy rate. For many of them, the day’s main meal still comprises roots, snails or rats, from which the community’s name is derived.
We met Manjhi a few weeks before the cancer that finally ended his life on August 17 forced him to take to his bed. The 73- year-old was frail, but his energy was undiminished as he relived his work on the road. “I knew if I did not do it myself, neither would the government do it nor would the villagers have the will and determination. This hill had given us trouble and grief for centuries. The people had asked the government many times to make a proper road through the hill, but nobody paid any attention. So I just decided I would do it all by myself.”
Before Manjhi’s road, the hill kept the villages of the region in isolation, forcing the villagers to make an arduous and dangerous trek just to reach the nearest market town, or even their own fields. In 1959, Manjhi recounted, this resulted in a family tragedy on the treacherous slope. “My wife, Faguni Devi, was seriously injured while crossing the hill to bring me water; I worked then on a farm across the hills. That was the day I decided to carve out a proper road through this hill,” he told us. The mission he had set himself meant that he had to drop his wage-earning daily work — his family suffered and he himself often went without food. But his wife was not to see the fruits of his labour — a short while later, she fell ill and died as Manjhi could not get her to the hospital in time. “My love for my wife was the initial spark that ignited in me the desire to carve out a road. But what kept me working without fear or worry all those years was the desire to see thousands of villagers crossing the hill with ease whenever they wanted,” Manjhi said. “Though most villagers taunted me at first, there were quite a few who lent me support later by giving me food and helping me buy my tools.” Today, the villagers have nothing but gratitude for Gaya’s mountain man, known almost universally now as Sadhuji.
Dashrath Manjhi belonged to Bihar’s Musahar community, regarded as the lowest among the state’s Scheduled Castes. While other Dalits in Bihar had at least some land rights under the erstwhile zamindari system, the Musahars never enjoyed any such. Nearly 98 percent of the state’s 1.3 million Musahars are landless today. Not even one percent of them are literate, which makes them the community with the country’s lowest literacy rate. For many of them, the day’s main meal still comprises roots, snails or rats, from which the community’s name is derived.
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UNDETERRED: Ridiculed at
first, Manjhi later became a local hero
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After Manjhi completed his road, he
worked tirelessly for the betterment of his community. Among his other efforts,
he managed to persuade nearly 50 Musahar families of his village to settle on
government- granted land, although most of them were unwilling to leave their
old homes. But when Manjhi started living on the allotted land, the rest
followed suit. This new settlement is now known as Dashrath Nagar. Manjhi’s other
efforts have been less successful. Despite his herculean feat, the Bihar
government has given him only token appreciation and insincere help.
Himself landless, he made a petition once for property on which to build a hospital. Then chief minister Laloo Prasad Yadav allotted him a five-acre plot in a village called Karzania — the people of the village never allowed him to take possession as they were using the land as a grazing ground. More recently, the Bihar government recommended Manjhi’s name for the Padma Bhushan. This never materialised, nor did Nitish Kumar’s promised support for a road Manjhi wanted from Wazirganj to Gahlaur. Government sources say the forest department had refused permission for the road, claiming that Manjhi had violated regulations by cutting away at the hill without the department’s permission. The Padma Bhushan was reportedly denied to Manjhi because of claims made by certain quarters in the bureaucracy that he did not actually carve out the hill road single-handedly. The villagers who benefited from his labour were outraged at these reports.
“Where was the forest department sleeping all these years when Sadhuji was creating history to help thousands of poor villagers? We have seen him from our childhood, hacking at the hill day and night as if he were possessed,” said Raj Kumar, a 30- year-old Gahlaur resident. But Manjhi was unfazed. “What I did is there for everyone to see. When God is with you, nothing can stop you,” he told us as we left. “I will keep working for the development of the villages here so long I am alive. I am neither afraid of any punishment from any government department for my work nor am I interested in any honour from the government.” Brave words, but perhaps only what one would have expected from the man. The government attempted amends by giving him a state funeral last week — but, as he well knew, it is his work that will live on longer than any honour.
Himself landless, he made a petition once for property on which to build a hospital. Then chief minister Laloo Prasad Yadav allotted him a five-acre plot in a village called Karzania — the people of the village never allowed him to take possession as they were using the land as a grazing ground. More recently, the Bihar government recommended Manjhi’s name for the Padma Bhushan. This never materialised, nor did Nitish Kumar’s promised support for a road Manjhi wanted from Wazirganj to Gahlaur. Government sources say the forest department had refused permission for the road, claiming that Manjhi had violated regulations by cutting away at the hill without the department’s permission. The Padma Bhushan was reportedly denied to Manjhi because of claims made by certain quarters in the bureaucracy that he did not actually carve out the hill road single-handedly. The villagers who benefited from his labour were outraged at these reports.
“Where was the forest department sleeping all these years when Sadhuji was creating history to help thousands of poor villagers? We have seen him from our childhood, hacking at the hill day and night as if he were possessed,” said Raj Kumar, a 30- year-old Gahlaur resident. But Manjhi was unfazed. “What I did is there for everyone to see. When God is with you, nothing can stop you,” he told us as we left. “I will keep working for the development of the villages here so long I am alive. I am neither afraid of any punishment from any government department for my work nor am I interested in any honour from the government.” Brave words, but perhaps only what one would have expected from the man. The government attempted amends by giving him a state funeral last week — but, as he well knew, it is his work that will live on longer than any honour.
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