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Marginalised Chepangs give ‘chiuri’ trees as dowry to daughters in…

Hetauda, July 5: Unlike material things given away in dowry to daughters in marriage generally, Chepang, the indigenous nationalities of Nepal, categorised as a highly marginalised group present the 'chiuri' trees (Diploknema butyracea). The nomadic people continued their age-old tradition of gifting chiuri trees in marriage of their daughters. The