A Study on Life Style Pattern of Tharu Tribal Families in Bahraich District of Uttar Pradesh in India

The tribal people are popularly named as Vanavasi (inhabitants of forest), Vanajati (castes of forest), Janjati (folk people), Adimjati (primitive people), Anusuchit Janjati (schedule tribe) and so on. Among all these terms Adivasi is known most extensively and Anusuchit janjati or schedule tribes is the constitutional name covering all of them. As per the census of 2011 the tribal population consists of 8.6% while it was 8.2% according to the census of 2001. The Tharu is well known scheduled tribe of Uttar Pradesh. Tharus mostly live in the Tarai belt of Uttar Pradesh. The Region covers five districts of Uttar Pradesh namely Lakhimpur Kheri, Balrampur, Bahraich, Shravasti and Maharajganj. The objective of study to find out the life style pattern of adult Tharu tribes. Looking to the nature of study descriptive research design was adopted. For the study of life style pattern of adult Tharu tribes, there was 15 blocks in Bahraich district but its Nanpara tehsil has 4 blocks, in these 4 blocks only Mihinpurwa has Tharu population. Rampura, Vishnapur, Fakeerpuri and Bardiya villages were selected purposely. Random sampling has been adopted for the study. 356 sample (211 female and 145 male) were selected for the study. 89 respondents were selected from each village interview schedule was developed by self to assess the background information of the respondents. Life style pattern proforma contains the question related to life style pattern such as sleeping hours, type of exercise, consumption of tobacco, drinking and smoking habit etc. Majority of respondents in the study area adopted low health and hygiene practices