Mandabi Gaupalika 1 तिराम Dhurunga | |
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Village Development Committee | |
  Mandabi Gaupalika 1 Location in Nepal | |
| Coordinates: 28°01′N82°46′E / 28.02°N 82.77°E Coordinates: 28°01′N82°46′E / 28.02°N 82.77°E | |
| Country |  |
| Region | Mid-Western |
| Zone | Rapti Zone |
| District | Pyuthan District |
| VDC | Tiram |
| Wards | 1 |
| Population (2001 Census [1] ) | |
| • Total | 4,926 |
| 827 households | |
| Time zone | UTC+5:45 (Nepal Time) |
| 28°01′04″N082°46′14″E / 28.01778°N 82.77056°E | |
Tiram is a town and Village Development Committee in Pyuthan, a Middle Hills district of Rapti Zone, western Nepal.
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages but smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish them vary considerably between different parts of the world.
Pyuthan District(Nepali: प्युठान जिल्ला
Rapti Zone was one of the fourteen zones, located in the Mid-Western Development Region of Nepal. It was named after the West Rapti River which drains Rolpa, Pyuthan and part of Dang districts. The remainder of Dang and part of Salyan district are drained by the Babai. The remainder of Salyan and all of Rukum districts are drained by the Bheri.
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Tiram is a hill town surrounded by terraced rice fields with a mostly Bahun and Chhetri population. It is the home of a politically prominent family named Upadhyaya. Tiram is situated on a spur of the Mahabharat Range overlooking Mardi Khola, the largest tributary of the Rapti.
Bahun or Khas Brahmin(Nepali: खस ब्राह्मण) or Nepali Brahman is a caste among Khas ethnic Pahari people. Bahun is a local colloquial term for the Nepali-speaking hill Brahmins. According to 2011 Nepal census, Brahman/Bahun or Brahmin-Hill stands as second most populous group after Chhetri in Nepal.
Chhetri, historically called Kshettriya or Kshetriya, are Nepali speakers of Khas Rajput community some of whom trace their origin to migration from medieval India. Chhetri was a caste of administrators, governor and military elites in medieval Khas Kingdom and Gorkha Kingdom. The nobility of Gorkha Kingdom were mainly based from Chhetri families and they had a strong presence in civil administration affairs. The bulk of Prime Ministers of Nepal before democratization of Nepal belonged to this caste as a result of old Gorkhali aristocracy. Gorkha-based aristocratic Chhetri families were Pande dynasty, Basnyat dynasty, Thapa dynasty and Kunwars.
West Rapti drains Rapti Zone in Mid-Western Region, Nepal, then Awadh and Purvanchal regions of Uttar Pradesh state, India before joining the Ghaghara -- a major left bank tributary of the Ganges known as the Karnali inside Nepal.
A motorable gravel road from Tribhuwannagar, Dang Deokhuri District passes through the town and descends toward a junction along Mardi Khola with a more important spur road linking the administrative centers of Pyuthan and Rolpa districts to the main east-west Mahendra Highway.
Liwang is district headquarters and municipality in Rolpa District in the Rapti Zone of southwestern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 8425.
Mahendra Highway, also called East-West Highway runs across the Terai geographical region of Nepal, from Mechinagar in the east to Bhim Datta in the west, cutting across the entire width of the country. It is the longest highway in Nepal and was constructed by CPWD/PWD Nepali and Indian engineers.
