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unusual facts about Tharu people



Chitwan Valley

Until the beginning of the 20th century, the main part of the Chitwan Valley was under forest and sparsely populated by ethnic groups, such as the Tharu, Danuwar, Darai and Majhi people who had acquired some resistance against the infectious malaria raging the region.

Geography of Nepal

These valleys have productive soil but were dangerously malarial except to indigenous Tharu people who had genetic resistance.


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