Tharu people performing traditional dance at Chitwan National Park, Chitwan, Nepal
The Tharu people are an ethnic group indigenous to the Terai, the southern foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal. The Tharu people themselves say that they are a people of the forest. In Chitwan, they have lived in the forests for hundreds of years practicing a short fallow shifting cultivation.
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