The
Madhesh is a region located in southern plains of Nepal. People who live in this region, are known as
Madhesi peoples. The region's name in
Urdu as referred by
Nepali Muslims is
tarai meaning "lands lying at the foot of a watershed" or "on the banks of a river; low ground flooded with water, valley, basin, marshy ground, marsh, swamp; meadow". The region was historically separate from Nepal until 1860 when the
British Raj rewarded it to Nepal.