The Tharu Page
The Tharu are a culturally and linguistically diverse
ethnic category who live along the Indo-Nepal border, in the region known
as the Tarai.
There are almost 1.2 million Tharu in Nepal, and smaller numbers live in the
adjacent areas of India, mostly in Champaran district of Bihar and in Naini
Tal district of Uttar Pradesh. The Naini Tal district in India and the Jhapa
district in Nepal are, respectively, the westernmost and easternmost areas
of Tharu habitation. This page is a guide to online materials on Tharu society
and culture on the web, and is constantly being updated.
Books and Monographs on the Tharu
Theses and Dissertations
- Arjun Guneratne, Many
Tongues, One People: The Making of Tharu Identity in Nepal.
- Katharine Bjork Guneratne, In
the Circle of the Dance: Notes of an Outsider in Nepal
Reviews: James Fisher (Himalayan Research
- Gisèle Krauskopff, Maîtres
et Possédés: Les Rites et l'ordre social chez les Tharu (Népal)
Reviews : David
- Kurt W. Meyer, Pamela Deuel, eds., Mahabharata:
The Tharu Barka Naach
Reviews: Jim Laine (Himalayan Research Bulletin.
- Ulrike Müller-Böker, Die Tharu in Chitawan:
Kenntnis, Bewertung und Nutzung der natürlichen Umwelt im südlichen
Krämer (Kathmandu Review of Books)
- S.K.Srivastava, The Tharus: A Study in Culture Dynamics
- Gisèle Krauskopff and
Pamela Deuel Meyer, eds., The Kings of Nepal and the Tharu of the Tarai.
for Tharu roots: A new book pores through royal records to find how past kings
dealt with Nepal’s indigenous Tharu
Tharu Community Development Organizations
Campaign to eradicate bonded labor in
Tharus and the Maoist Insurgency