The impact of malaria control on the economic development of Nepal

Abstract

Abstract Throughout the hours of daylight the Terai is safe enough. It is the evening that man may not spend in this beautiful park. Sundown in the Terai has brought to an end more attempted raids into Nepal and has buried more political hopes than will ever be known. The English learnt their lesson early, for within forty years of Plassey a column − moving to the help of hard-beset Nepal − withered and retreated before the miasma of this paradise. The English had been told of its dangers, but they had to learn from experience what all India had known and feared for centuries ... The tribe of the Tharus alone − an indigenous race of the Terai, fit only to act as carters − are immune ... Perhaps after all this zone is only affected by an unusually virulent form of the fever, but of its mortal effect there is no question. The records of Nepal and of the Indian army are crowded with the names of its victims. This local pestilence is known far and wide as awal, a name which hums an undertone of death throughout the chronicles of Nepal. Between October and March its teeth are drawn.