An Introduction - Tharu Tribe

The Tharu is well known scheduled tribe of Uttar Pradesh. It was declared as scheduled tribe in U.P. in the year 1967, along with four other tribes. After independence, for the first time in June, 1967 the President of India notified five tribes of U.P. viz Raji, Bhotia, Jaunsari, Tharu and Bhoksa as scheduled tribes four, out of these five tribes, namely Raji, Bhotia, Jaunsari and Bhoksa (Buxa) have now become a part of Uttarakhand, though some villages of the Bhoksas are still in district Bijnor of Uttar Pradesh. Hence, there were only two scheduled tribes left in Uttar Pradesh namely Tharu and Bhoksa after the division of the state in the year 2000, Recently on January 2003, the government of Indian included ten new tribes in the list of scheduled tribes of Uttar Pradesh by the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes of Uttar Pradesh by the scheduled caste and scheduled tribes order (Amendment, Act, 2002, these are Gond, Kharwar, Sahariya Parahiya, Baiga, Pankha, Agaria, Patari, Chero and Bhuiya these were earlier listed as scheduled castes of Uttar Pradesh.