{"id":4796,"date":"2026-04-18T12:21:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4796"},"modified":"2026-04-18T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:29:34","slug":"who-are-the-tharu-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/who-are-the-tharu-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Tharu Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Tharu Tribe Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court recently set aside a district-level committee\u2019s decision to reject the community forest rights claims of the Tharu tribe in Lakhimpur Kheri.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Tharu Tribe<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tharu tribe is one of the <\/span><b>indigenous groups<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> living in the <\/span><b>Terai plain<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the <\/span><b>Indo-Nepal border.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tharu are the<\/span><b> largest and oldest ethnic group of the Terai region.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They live in both <\/span><b>India and Nepal.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>In the Indian Terai,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> they live mostly in <\/span><b>Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1967, this tribe was <\/span><b>documented as a Scheduled Tribe by the Government of India.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Language<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: They have their own language called <\/span><b>Tharu or Tharuhati,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a language of the <\/span><b>Indo-Aryan subgroup of the Indo-Iranian group<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the <\/span><b>Indo-European family.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Economy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Most Tharu practice <\/span><b>agriculture<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, raise cattle, hunt, fish, and <\/span><b>collect forest products.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Most of their food involves rice, lentils, and vegetables.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tharu <\/span><b>traditional homes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, known as \u201c<\/span><b>Badaghar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d are <\/span><b>made with local materials<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> such as <\/span><b>mud, wood, and thatch.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Society<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Despite their patrilineal social system,<\/b> <b>women have property rights<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> greatly exceeding those recognized in Hindu society.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tharu <\/span><b>marriages are patrilocal within the tribe.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A common feature of the Tharu community is the <\/span><b>joint family system of living in long houses.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tharus live in<\/span><b> compact villages<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, usually in the<\/span><b> middle of a forest clearing.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Panchayat system (Local Social Council) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is very strong in this tribe; the <\/span><b>head of the panchayat<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is called \u2018\u2019<\/span><b>Pradhan\u2019\u2019 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the local Tharu language.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Religion<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The Tharu people practice a unique <\/span><b>blend of animism, Hinduism, and nature worship.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/lawtrend.in\/allahabad-high-court-quashes-order-rejecting-tharu-tribes-forest-rights-directs-fresh-hearing-in-lakhimpur-kheri-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LAWT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tharu Tribe is one of the indigenous groups living in the Terai plain on the Indo-Nepal border. 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