Talk:Tharu people

message: Tharus were the main inhabitants of inner-terai valleys such as Chitwan, Dang and Deukhuri before malaria was suppressed via DDT and other ethnic groups finally arrived in force.  Although Tharus have myths of coming from somewhere else, if their resistance to malaria is genetic, that suggests they must have lived in malarial land -- such as the Terai -- longer than ethnic groups that could hardly live there before DDT came into wide use locally.  
How many thousand years does it take a human population to genetically evolve to fit a particular niche?  Possibly this could be modeled using frequencies of sickle cell and other malaria-resisting genes in populations that did not evolve with malaria, making assumptions about natural selection in the event that these populations moved to the Terai.
Tharus do not seem to have indo-european features, yet speak a indo-european dialect.  Did their aboriginal language progressively borrow from Hindi, Bhojpuri and Maithili until it ultimately shrunk to nothing?
Are Tharus racially Dravidian?  They really don't look like South Indians to any great extent.  Perhaps it would be more fruitful to look for affinities with indigenous peoples in Bengal, Northeastern India and on into northern Burma, Thailand and Vietnam.
::These people look Mongolic, they are probably of mixed race, with the Mongolic features dominating the other features. One's language is not an indication of one's "race". Black Americans speak English, but that does not make them Anglo-Saxons, they are still predominantly Africans. 2A00:23C5:C102:9E00:D4BC:16C7:19E2:E75B (talk) 18:49, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tharu resistance to malaria suggests long residence in Terai 

message: According to Nepal’s 2001 census, there are 1,533,879 ethnic Tharu (6.75% of Nepal's total population) of which 1,331,546 speak one of the seven Tharu dialects as a mother tongue. Thus, 97.63% of the ethnic Tharu are Hindu according to the 2001 Census of Nepal, whereas 1.95% are Buddhist.  Mattisse(talk) 18:34, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Putting info from article here for now as it is unsourced 

message: This article has a section on religion. There are external links at the bottom of the article but I am not qualified to correctly source that section. Hopefully someone more qualified than I will do it. Thanks! Sincerely,  Mattisse(talk) 01:27, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hindu expert needs to look at religion section 

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message: The man is wearing a standard Nepali topi and a western-style scarf.  Can anyone supply a photo of a man and woman in traditional dress? LADave (talk) 02:34, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not very good photo 

message: The man didn't look Indian, but Mongoloid, particularly Tibetan-related.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.80.27.186 (talk) 00:20, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: @67.80.27.186 agreed. Muhafiz-e-Pakistan (talk) 14:32, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Indian Origin" 

message: How about a section on Tharu cuisine?  Does it differ from dal-bhat-tarkari?  Do Tharu eat any foods not normally eaten by Hindus? LADave (talk) 22:56, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Tharus eat whatever the rest of the population of Nepal eats but our cuisine is still unique and a bit different from the mainstream Nepali society. Tharu tribe mainly resides near marshlands, rivers, and flooded plains, so their foods are also inspired by it. Unlike most Hindus who avoid Pork, Tharus are pork lovers specially in Western Nepal and some parts of Central, Mid Eastern and Eastern Nepal. Not all Tharus consume pork but it is an important part of the diet in Western Nepal. Similarly dishes like Ghonghi (Water Snails), Kokhara/ Gengta / Kakhor (Crabs), etc are consumed only by certain ethnicities like the indigenous Dhimals and Tharus as other ethnicities find it amusing. Majority of the Tharus are Hindu nowadays so we eat like the rest of the population of Nepal but we also consume our traditional unique cuisine which are very different from what the general population eats and as a result Tharu cuisine is kind of popular in Nepal for it's uniqueness. Munal Chaudhary (talk) 05:41, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The dishes are consumed only by the indigenous ethnicities of Terai like the Dhimals and the Tharus and not by the other ethnicities but nowadays everyone seats it so it has become a common food consumed by  everyone. Munal Chaudhary (talk) 05:53, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tharu cuisine 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The article mentioned that "Tharus are recognised as official nationality by the Governments of Nepal and India". Are any ethnic group recognised as such? I think Nepalese Tharus are Nepalese and Indian Tharus are Indians. I know  that there is no such system of "official recognition of ethnic groups as nationality" in India, I don't know if there is any such system in Nepal, so I have modified the article.Thanks.  -  Ind akash (talk) 05:45, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "official recognition as nationality"  

message: Re Rana Tharu followers of Hinduism : referenced was this website joshuaproject.net, which in turn refers to Nepal's latest National Population and Housing Census, which is the 2011 one, published in 2012. This report is also referenced and linked to in main page. See this report's *Table 22: Population by religion* on pages 184–200 : religion of ethnic groups has NOT been censused, but only of males + females in all districts. Therefore, I removed this as ref, since the data presented on this website were obviously misinterpreted. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 17:18, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure is it important that the content on Tharu people presented here needs to be in line with Wikipedia:Core content policies, reliable and verifiable. And I have been taking care in the past 10 or so years that IT IS by e.g. removing statements that were added by others without sources or based on dodgy websites or blogs. For the same reason, I removed the section on cuisine that has been poorly sourced for many years. – BhagyaMani (talk) 03:52, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religion + statistics