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 state of Bihar.

[4] 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[8] (part of the Rajgir hills) that prevented road access from the town of Wazirganj.

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 70 km (43 mi) away.

[12] Manjhi was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer and was admitted to the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi on 23 July 2007.

[1] A stamp featuring Dashrath Manjhi was released by India Post in the "Personalities of Bihar" series on 26 December 2016.

[14] In 2011, director Kumud Ranjan working for the state-owned Films Division of India produced a documentary based on Manjhi's life titled The Man Who Moved the Mountain.

[15] The first episode of Season 2 of the Aamir Khan hosted TV Show Satyamev Jayate, aired in March 2014, was dedicated to Dashrath Manjhi.