[1] Ram Dayal Munda was born in the tribal village Diuri in the Ranchi district of Bihar (Now in Jharkhand) India.

[1] As the heartland of the historic Birsa Movement for autonomy in the British Empire, the Khunti area attracted scholars from all over the world, particularly from the discipline of anthropology.

[1] Munda got an opportunity for getting higher education in linguistics in an interdisciplinary atmosphere, from an ambitious research project of the University of Chicago, on the Indic group of the Austroasiatic languages under the guidance of Norman Zide.

Munda received his PhD from the University of Chicago[3] and was subsequently appointed in the faculty of Department of South Asian Studies.

The department was the rallying point for all social politico activists engaged in finding out ways to change the internal colonial situation the people of Jharkhand were faced with.