Migrants, Smugglers, Traders, and Treacherous Rivers: A Genealogy of Bihar-Nepal Border from Treaty of Sugauli to c. 1947
Author : Mithilesh Kumar | 2017
Published By: Tata Institute of Social Sciences
The report says that the geographical and ecological aspect of terai gave it the status of periphery for both the Nepal Durbar and colonial authorities much before the treaty.