Cultural Variation in Tharu Culture in Jhapa
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Abstract
Cultural, linguistic and geographical diversity are the fact of Nepal to get
decorated in the case of identity and Jhapa district is also not an exception to save the
identity of intra and inter ethnic cultural variation. Culture refers to the set of rules
and norms of life to be adopted in one ethnic peoplewho come either from ancestors
or from the pass of time with the process of hybridization, transculturation,
acculturation and modernization. Culture is like the living thing which remains on us
being our identity coming from tradition and modernity and always we do our best to
preserve it. In this context, one ethnic clan of Tharus has been living being dispersed
in different parts of Jhapa. Though, they have many more commonality and single
originational history, they have saved their inter and intra communal identity in
accordance with their respective dwelling place which forces them to stand or exist
with the feature of cultural variation within them due to the various causes like the
process of migration, adoption, hybridization, transculturation, modernization and
acculturation.