Terai

The terai is the lowland band along the long southwestern edge of the country, part of the plain of the River Ganges. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Visit one of the hill stations in the east or any other city in terai, like Gaighat or Biratnagar. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Many of the terai grasslands and floodplain forests support five deer species (swamp deer, sambar, axis deer, hog deer, and barking deer), an unusually diverse assemblage of cervids. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Floods are the most common annual occurrences in Uttar Pradesh, affecting one or the other part of the state; the most affected being the districts of the eastern U. P.and terai region. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Ranbir Sena is an upcoming Terai outfit group which has been raising voices for the identity and sovereignty of the terai people. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This particular one-horned Rhinoceros is the biggest of all rhinos inhabiting in the world and found only in Assam and foot of Himalayan, Nepal terai. ❋ Unknown (2008)

While Indian embassy's staffers in Kathmandu keep themselves busy trying to paint India's friendly attitude by providing funds to build bridges and inaugurating school buildings in terai, their government in New Delhi makes Nepalese pay for the financial aid provided to Nepal by ripping off their national identity. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For even in her white terai and belted suit of white linen she was a vision appropriate only to the far-off world that this man had left behind him at the call of duty -- a world of delicate living and subtle sensations, of frail flesh in luxurious settings, of sophistication that would have shrunk from every crudity, and exquisiteness that would have shriveled at the touch of hardship. ❋ Stephen French Whitman (N/A)

Instead of accompanying the Viceroy to Allahabad she had gone to Darjeeling, and on her return, anxious to make sketches of the beautiful jungle scenery, she arranged, alas! contrary to the advice of those with her, to spend one night in the _terai_, [4] where she contracted jungle-fever, to which she succumbed ten days after her return to ❋ Frederick Sleigh Roberts (N/A)

You take your gun with a plentiful supply of cartridges, a coolie to carry bottled beer and sandwiches and to pick up the birds, and sally forth into the meadows and fields, dressed in an ordinary light summer suit or flannels, terai hat and low shoes, with the bottoms of your trousers tucked into your socks to keep out the insects. ❋ Oliver George Ready (N/A)

One double terai hat, brown (Army and Navy stores). ❋ John T. McCutcheon (1909)

A helmet in brush is the next noisiest thing to a circus band, so it is always well to have, also, a double terai. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

Often they are still wearing sun helmets or double terai hats, pending a descent on a Piccadilly hatter two days hence. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

At that time the universal sun-helmet or double terai could be laid aside for straw hats, cloth caps, or bare heads. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

Afar off he caught sight of her, standing, in habit and _terai_, on the open space where her tent had been, supervising the departure of her last load of luggage, and listening patiently to tales of coolie villainy and extortion poured forth by her Kashmiri ayah, on a high note of vituperation. ❋ Maud Diver (1906)

Mrs. Boulte put on a big terai hat, and walked across to the Vansuythens 'house to borrow last week's Queen. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

To complete the effect, she was wearing an unclean terai with the elastic under her chin. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

Chinaman or Malay, who stripped the skin from the flesh; and finally to the jungle or mountain side or terai where the bird gave up its life to blowpipe, cross-bow, blunderbuss or carefully set snare. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)

-- In the swampy terai at the foot of the hills from Oude to ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

The terai belt of Uttar Pradesh, previously well known for its rice production, has witnessed a major shift in their crop growing pattern. ❋ Unknown (2010)