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Kinkri Devi
Kinkri Devi (1925 – December 30, 2007) was an Indian activist and environmentalist, best known for waging a war on illegal mining and quarrying in her native state of Himachal Pradesh. She never knew how to read or write and learned how to sign her name a few years before her death. She became well known for her poverty, which was eventually eased by a US-based charity organisation of Himachal Pradesh later in life after reading a Punjabi newspaper account of her living conditions. ==Early life== Devi was born in the village of Ghaton in the Sirmaur district in 1925.〔〔 Her father was a substinance farmer of the Dalit, or untouchable caste.〔 She began working as a servant during her early childhood and married bonded laborer Shamu Ram at age 14.〔 Ram died of typhoid fever when she was 22.〔 While working at her new job as a sweeper, Devi noticed the massive quarrying in some parts of Himachal Pradesh's hills, harming the water supply and destroying paddy fields.〔 At this point Devi decided to take on the mining herself.〔
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