साँचा:Infobox Karukhushiyal Tharu का स्रोत देखें

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2019}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Tharu people
| image =Tharu Mahila.jpg
| image_caption = Tharu woman
| region1 = {{flag|Nepal}}
| pop1 = 1,737,470<ref name=cbs2012 />
| region2 = [[Bihar]]
| pop2 = 159,939
| ref2 = <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/PCA/ST.html|title=A-11 Individual Scheduled Tribe Primary Census Abstract Data and its Appendix|publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner,India|last=ORGI|website=www.censusindia.gov.in|access-date=2017-11-20}}</ref>
| region3 = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| pop3 = 105,291
| region4 = [[Uttarkhand]]
| pop4 = 91,342
| languages = [[Tharu languages]], [[Nepali language]]
| religions = [[Hinduism]], [[Buddhism]], traditional beliefs
| related = {{hlist|[[Dhimal]]|[[Bhoksa people]]|[[Pokhariya]]|[[Ban Rawats]]}}
| native_name = Tharu
| native_name_lang = np
}}

The '''Tharu people''' are an [[ethnic group]] [[Indigenous peoples|indigenous]] to the southern foothills of the [[Himalayas]]; most of the Tharu people live in the [[Nepal]] [[Terai]].<ref name=Bista>{{cite book |last=Bista |first=D. B. |author-link=Dor Bahadur Bista |year=1971 |title=People of Nepal |publisher=[[Ratna Pustak Bhandar]] |edition=second |location=Kathmandu}}</ref><ref name="rajaure1981">{{Cite journal |last = Rajaure |first = D. P. |title = Tharus of Dang: the people and the social context |journal = Kailash |volume = 8 |issue = 3/4 |place = Kathmandu |publisher = Ratna Pustak Bhandar |year = 1981 |pages = 155–185 |url = http://www.thlib.org/static/reprints/kailash/kailash_08_0304_02.pdf}}</ref><ref name="mclean">{{cite journal |author=McLean, J. |url=http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1628&context=himalaya |year=1999 |title=Conservation and the impact of relocation on the Tharus of Chitwan, Nepal |publisher=Himalayan Research Bulletin |volume=XIX |issue=2 |pages=38–44}}</ref><ref name=Guneratne2002>{{cite book |last=Guneratne |first=A. |year=2002 |title=Many tongues, one people: The making of Tharu identity in Nepal |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=Ithaca, New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T7FWQ6dzYZQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref> The word थारू ''thāru''<ref>{{Cite book|title=A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language|last=Turner|first=R. L.|publisher=K. Paul, Trench, Trubner|year=1931|place=London|chapter=थारु thāru|chapterurl=http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.1:1:2790.turner}}</ref> is thought to be derived from ''[[Sthavira nikāya|sthavir]]'' meaning follower of [[Theravada]] [[Buddhism]].<ref name="Skar1995" /> Some Tharu groups also live in the [[India]]n Terai, foremost in [[Uttarakhand]], [[Uttar Pradesh]] and [[Bihar]].<ref name=Verma2010>{{cite journal |author=Verma, S.C. |year=2010 |title=The eco-friendly Tharu tribe: A study in socio-cultural dynamics |journal=Journal of Asia Pacific Studies |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=177–187 |url=https://www.academia.edu/download/24194920/japsvol1no2may2010.pdf }}{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XK19CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA110&dq=tharu+parts+of+the+terai&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiPi-idh4HTAhViJsAKHQ4YB50Q6AEIMDAE#v=onepage&q=tharu%20parts%20of%20the%20terai&f=false | title=Genes and Resistance to Disease | accessdate=31 March 2017 | pages=110}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LgCqCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA62&dq=tharu+eastern+terai&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwibnZr1xIHTAhWIAMAKHVNJB9YQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&f=false | title=Internal Conflicts: Military Perspectives | accessdate=31 March 2017 | pages=62}}</ref>

The Tharus are recognized as an official [[nationality]] by the [[Government of Nepal]].<ref name=Lewis_the>{{cite book |author=Lewis, M. P., G. F. Simons, and C. D. Fennig (eds.) |year=2014 |chapter=Tharu, Chitwania: a language of Nepal |title=Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Seventeenth edition |location=Dallas, Texas |publisher=SIL International, online version |chapterurl=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=the}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] recognizes the Tharu people as a [[scheduled tribe]].<ref name=Verma2010/>