TARAI, or TERAI (i.e. " moist

See also:

• LAND

land ")  , the name of the sub-montane strip of marshy jungle stretching beneath the lower ranges of the Himalaya in northern India . This strip may be said to extend roughly from the Jumna river on the west to the Brahmaputra on the east, though the term is now officially confined to a subdivision of Naini Tal district in the United Provinces; area, 776 sq . In.; population (1901) 118,422 . At its northern edge, where the waterless forest tract of the Bhabar ends, a series of springs burst from the surface, and these, increasing and uniting in their progress, form the numerous streams that intersect the Tarai . The Deoha is the great river of the Tarai proper, and is navigable at Pilibhit . Elephants, tigers, bears, leopards and other wild animals are found . Every-where it is most unhealthy, and inhabited only by tribes who seem proof against malaria . A large portion lies within Nepal .