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"I met and discussed with Miss Gisele Krauskopff, a sell-known French anthropologist whose works are devoted on Tharu studies for more than 15 years and has contributed to Nepalese anthropology compiling several scholarly books and literary compositions on the Dangora Tharu. She suggested that I go through the pre-historic cultures of stone ages for the discovery of Tharu origin. I am very grateful to her for her suggestions and reviewing this article. She hinted that like Acharya (1972:36) the forefather of Tharu (Peking man or Kirat?) might have come to India and Nepal from East-Northern Asia through the Assam or Brahmaputra around seven thousand years ago. Chatterji (1951:36) also calculated that their advent in the East might have been as old as that of the Aryans in the west, at some period above 1000 B.C.
But we should not forget recent discoveries and excavations. The fossils of Ramapithecus in Butwal and Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic industries and cultural artifacts have been found in several places such as in Dang, Deokhuri, Tui and Kathmandu valley and as well in Siraha and Mahottari8 districts. These discoveries place Nepal among those countries where mankind started to live at around eleven million years ago (Mishara, 1996:73-9). Dr Kaushic (1994:103) says, "It seems that the Shivalik hill is the original place of homosapiens who diffused upto Tibet and Oxus. At least, the Australoid stock might have been originated in India".
Rahul Samkrityayan (1957:84-5) and Kamala Samkrityayan have also pointed that the Tharus are a branch of Mon-Khmer (Kirat). Similarly, Prof. Iman Singh Chomjong and Prem Bahadur Limbu said on the basis of the Kirat Genealogy that the Tharus and Donbars are a sub-lineage of the Thangdao (Kirat). But to find a link among the Ramapithecus, Kirat and Tharu, we need first to find many missing points. However, it could be true only in the contexts of the Bogsas (Boksa), Kacchariya (Bodo), Raji and Dhimal Tharus but not for all the groups of Tharus. Even so, the people can be consi9dered as a mountain tribe. The eastern Tharus do not accept them as pure Tharu. Nesfield (1885), D.N. Majmudar (1937), K.S Singh (1994) ranked them as different tribes. There, I am informed by ex-minister Ashok Rai that a Rai group Kirat, offers the pindas (ritualistic rice-cake) to the Tharu. But their cultures, physical appearances, languages and status differ from each other. They have been living very close, for a long time but they never married with each o9ther. Why ? It is a question to be addressed before staring the link among them."
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"I met and discussed with Miss Gisele Krauskopff, a sell-known French anthropologist whose works are devoted on Tharu studies for more than 15 years and has contributed to Nepalese anthropology compiling several scholarly books and literary compositions on the Dangora Tharu. She suggested that I go through the pre-historic cultures of stone ages for the discovery of Tharu origin. I am very grateful to her for her suggestions and reviewing this article. She hinted that like Acharya (1972:36) the forefather of Tharu (Peking man or Kirat?) might have come to India and Nepal from East-Northern Asia through the Assam or Brahmaputra around seven thousand years ago. Chatterji (1951:36) also calculated that their advent in the East might have been as old as that of the Aryans in the west, at some period above 1000 B.C.
But we should not forget recent discoveries and excavations. The fossils of Ramapithecus in Butwal and Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic industries and cultural artifacts have been found in several places such as in Dang, Deokhuri, Tui and Kathmandu valley and as well in Siraha and Mahottari8 districts. These discoveries place Nepal among those countries where mankind started to live at around eleven million years ago (Mishara, 1996:73-9). Dr Kaushic (1994:103) says, "It seems that the Shivalik hill is the original place of homosapiens who diffused upto Tibet and Oxus. At least, the Australoid stock might have been originated in India".
Rahul Samkrityayan (1957:84-5) and Kamala Samkrityayan have also pointed that the Tharus are a branch of Mon-Khmer (Kirat). Similarly, Prof. Iman Singh Chomjong and Prem Bahadur Limbu said on the basis of the Kirat Genealogy that the Tharus and Donbars are a sub-lineage of the Thangdao (Kirat). But to find a link among the Ramapithecus, Kirat and Tharu, we need first to find many missing points. However, it could be true only in the contexts of the Bogsas (Boksa), Kacchariya (Bodo), Raji and Dhimal Tharus but not for all the groups of Tharus. Even so, the people can be consi9dered as a mountain tribe. The eastern Tharus do not accept them as pure Tharu. Nesfield (1885), D.N. Majmudar (1937), K.S Singh (1994) ranked them as different tribes. There, I am informed by ex-minister Ashok Rai that a Rai group Kirat, offers the pindas (ritualistic rice-cake) to the Tharu. But their cultures, physical appearances, languages and status differ from each other. They have been living very close, for a long time but they never married with each o9ther. Why ? It is a question to be addressed before staring the link among them."
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