 They settled foremost in the eastern Nepal Terai together with native Terai peoples.This increased immigration facilitated expansion of cultivated land, which provided revenue for the state in the form of taxes by farmers, duties for felling and export of timber, and fees for grazing of cattle on pastures during dry seasons.In the mid 19th century, Muslim people from the Awadh region were invited to settle in the far-western Nepal Terai, where they received large forested areas for conversion to agriculture.