Tharu Village Tour

Tharu People are light black skinned, short but very stong people inhabited in the southern part of Nepal. They are the indigenous people of Terai. It is said that the Rajput dynasty was ruling in India but the Muslim attacked and killed the Rajput king then queen and other royal family women eloped with their servants and absconded to Nepal to save their life from Muslim. They (Rana Tharu) say that Rana Tharu is the noble cast in the Tharu people. Tharu people have a large extended joint families who live under a roof about 25 to 120 people. They think “united the extent and divided the fall.� They live in humid and hot place near by the forest or in the forest because they wear very thin clothes. They have the unique culture, tradition and separate languages. They use mostly the local agro-based or forest based materials for their household necessities. They usually spend their time in the agricultural field. The ladies wear many different types of ornaments about 21 to 35 types. Their dress symbol is as follows: Unmarried girls wear Nehenga, Choli and blouse. Married without children wears Nehenga, choli and Aghran (shawl). They cover their belly with aghran. The corner of aghran from bothside of the belly are thrust into Nehenga and made knot in the back. Married with children wears Nehenga, choli and Aghran clothes but they don’t tight or make a knot of aghran in the back. They leave their belly open.

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