Some reports say she was injured while walking along a narrow path across the rocky ridge to bring water or lunch to Manjhi, who had to work away from the village at a location south of the ridge other reports link the path across the ridge to the delayed care but not to Falguni Devi's injuries. In 1959, Manjhi's wife Falguni Devi was badly injured and died because she fell from the mountain and the nearest town with a doctor was 90 km (56 mi) away. Gehlaur was and remains a small village with few resources, and while it lies in a plain it is bordered on the south by a steeply ascending quartzite ridge of Mesoproterozoic (1- 1.6 billion years) age (part of the Rajgir hills) that prevented road access from the town of Wazirganj.Īfter he returned to Gehlaur, Manjhi became an agricultural labourer. Later he returned to the village of Gehlaur and married Falguni (or Phaguni) Devi. He ran away from his home at a young age and worked in the coal mines at Dhanbad. ![]() Dashrath Manjhi was born into a Musahar / Bhuiya family, at the lowest rank of India's caste system.
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