🔆Tharu Tribe
✅Context: The Uttar Pradesh government has recently embarked upon a scheme to take the unique culture of its ethnic Tharu tribe across the world.
▪️About the Scheme
✅The Scheme is about connecting the Tharu villages in the districts of Balrampur,
Bahraich, Lakhimpur, and Pilibhit bordering Nepal, with the homestay scheme of the UP Forest Department.
✅The idea is to off er tourists an experience of living in the natural Tharu habitat, in traditional huts made of grass collected mainly from the forests.
✅It will encourage villagers to acquaint them with aspects of safety and cleanliness, and with the rules of the forest.
✅The intention is to put Tharu villages on the tourism map and to create jobs and bring economic independence to the tribal population.
▪️Who are the Tharu people?
✅The community belongs to the Terai lowlands, amid the Shivaliks or lower Himalayas.
✅The Tharus live in both India and Nepal.
✅ In the Indian Terai, they live mostly in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar
✅Most of them are forest dwellers and some practice agriculture.
✅Members of the tribe survive on wheat, corn, and vegetables are grown close to their homes.
✅A majority still lives off the forest.
▪️Details on Tharu language, food, and culture:
✅They speak various dialects of Tharu, a language of the Indo-Aryan subgroup, and variants of Hindi, Urdu, and Awadhi.
✅In central Nepal, they speak a variant of Bhojpuri, while in eastern Nepal, they speak a variant of Maithili.
✅Tharus worship Lord Shiva as Mahadev.
✅Most Tharutribals consume alcoholic beverages, and some eat beef.
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✅Context: The Uttar Pradesh government has recently embarked upon a scheme to take the unique culture of its ethnic Tharu tribe across the world.
▪️About the Scheme
✅The Scheme is about connecting the Tharu villages in the districts of Balrampur,
Bahraich, Lakhimpur, and Pilibhit bordering Nepal, with the homestay scheme of the UP Forest Department.
✅The idea is to off er tourists an experience of living in the natural Tharu habitat, in traditional huts made of grass collected mainly from the forests.
✅It will encourage villagers to acquaint them with aspects of safety and cleanliness, and with the rules of the forest.
✅The intention is to put Tharu villages on the tourism map and to create jobs and bring economic independence to the tribal population.
▪️Who are the Tharu people?
✅The community belongs to the Terai lowlands, amid the Shivaliks or lower Himalayas.
✅The Tharus live in both India and Nepal.
✅ In the Indian Terai, they live mostly in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar
✅Most of them are forest dwellers and some practice agriculture.
✅Members of the tribe survive on wheat, corn, and vegetables are grown close to their homes.
✅A majority still lives off the forest.
▪️Details on Tharu language, food, and culture:
✅They speak various dialects of Tharu, a language of the Indo-Aryan subgroup, and variants of Hindi, Urdu, and Awadhi.
✅In central Nepal, they speak a variant of Bhojpuri, while in eastern Nepal, they speak a variant of Maithili.
✅Tharus worship Lord Shiva as Mahadev.
✅Most Tharutribals consume alcoholic beverages, and some eat beef.
Join @upsc_art_and_culture