1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TARAI, or TERAI (i.e. " moist land "), the name of the submontane 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. rn.; population (1001) 118,422. At its northern edge, where the waterless forest tract of the Bhabar ends, a series of springs burst …
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