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{{Infobox ethnic group
|group = Morangiya Tharu थारू<ref>{{Cite book |last = Turner |first= R. L. |title= A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language | place= London| publisher= Routledge |year= 1961 |url= http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.1:1:2790.turner}}</ref>
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| region1 = {{flag|Nepal|Morang}}
| region2 = {{flag|Nepal|Sunsari}}
|languages = [[Tharu languages]]
|religions = [[Hinduism]], traditional beliefs(Dhami)
|related = [[Dhimal]]
}}

'''Lampucchwa Tharu''' or '''Morangiya Tharu and Rajghariya Tharu''' is one of the endogamous subgroups of [[Tharu people]]<ref name="mclean">{{cite web |url=http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1628&context=himalaya |author=McLean, J. (1999). |title=Conservation and the impact of relocation on the Tharus of Chitwan, Nepal. |publisher=Himalayan Research Bulletin, XIX (2): 38-44}}</ref> which are an [[ethnic group]] [[Indigenous peoples|indigenous]] to the [[Terai]], the southern foothills of the [[Himalayas]] in [[Nepal]] and [[India]]. Likewise Morangiya Tharu dwells in the Eastern plain or [[Terai]] of Nepal. They can be found mainly in the districts of [[Morang]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last = Krauskopff|first = G. |title = The anthropology of the Tharus: an annotated bibliography |journal = Kailash |volume = 17 |issue = 3/4|location = Kathmandu |publisher = [[Ratna Pustak Bhandar]] |year = 1995 |access-date = April 11, 2011 |pages = 189–190 |url = http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/kailash/pdf/kailash_17_0304_05.pdf}}</ref> and [[Sunsari]]. Though found in two districts, they are called by Morangiya Tharu as those two districts were one district before 1962. Within the group, they refer to themselves as Morangiya Tharu, but people from other regions would call them Lampucchwa (as the women have tail-like structures on their dress).

==Distribution==
The Lampucchwa Tharu people are distributed in Morang and Sunsari districts.<ref>{{cite book |author= Lewis, M. P., G. F. Simons, and C. D. Fennig (eds.) |year=2014 |title=Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Seventeenth edition |location= Dallas, Texas |publisher=SIL International. Online version |chapter = Tharu, Kochila: a language of Nepal |chapter-url = http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=thq }}</ref>

==Culture==
===Food===
They plant rice, mustard, corn and lentils, but also collect forest products such as wild fruits, vegetables, medicinal plants and materials to build their houses. They hunt [[deer]], [[rabbit]] and [[wild boar]], and go fishing in the rivers and oxbow lakes.
They keep domestics animals like [[cow]]s, [[goat]]s, [[pig]]s and [[water buffalo]], and birds like [[pigeon]]s, [[chicken]]s and [[duck]]s. They live close to nature.
A group of Tharu people who do not eat pig are said Thokra, and these people have a belief that if they consume such meat their kul devi becomes angry and can cause disease in their family. However, others do not have this belief.<ref name="lam2009">{{cite web|author=Lam, L. M. |year=2009 |title=Park, hill migration and changes in household livelihood systems of Rana Tharus in Far-western Nepal. |publisher=University of Adelaide |url=http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/58136/1/02whole.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928051025/http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/58136/1/02whole.pdf |archive-date=2011-09-28 }}</ref>

===Dress===
Achra Khadki is the name of a traditional attire worn by women. Khadki is a hand-woven piece of cloth which is only made by the [[Dhimal]] community. Achra is fine cotton or any other special fabric which has beautiful handmade paintings. Generally it is white in colour but different colours are worn for different occasions. The Achra has a tail-like structure which is called Puccha.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/language/thq|title = Tharu, Mid-Eastern}}</ref>

===Language===
The Tharu language differs from other Tharu sub-groups.<ref name=Guneratne2002>{{cite book |author=Guneratne, A. |year=2002 |title=Many Tongues, One People: The Making of Tharu Identity in Nepal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T7FWQ6dzYZQC |publisher=Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York |isbn=0801487285}}</ref>

=== Morangiya Tharu Title ===
Chaudhary, Biswas, Majhi, Sikdar, Thandar, Mandal, Tabdar, Gachhedar, Akela, Khan, Bhagat, Modi, sardar, etc.

===Religion===
The spiritual beliefs and moral values of the Tharu people are closely linked to the natural environment. The [[Pantheon (gods)|pantheon]] of their gods comprises a large number of [[deities]] that live in the forest, which the Tharu people ask for support before entering the forest.
The Tharu can also be found following [[Hinduism]] and [[Christianity]] nowadays, although some still have traditional beliefs on kul deuta.

===Marriage System===
They practice arranged marriage as well as love marriage.

==References==
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