The tribal 'Nata Pratha' custom of divorce poses a peculiar challenge to the administration, particularly implementing the ...

The Tribe's Resilience After the 2004 Tsunami The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami devastated parts of the Andaman ...

The Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal ... by British settlers in 1858 and used for most of the following 100 years as a colonial penal colony. Tribes on some islands retained their distinct ...

Other than colonial Europeans visiting the larger Andaman islands ... conducted anthropological research on other Andamanese tribes (seen below). A decade later, in 1991, an Indian anthropologist ...

MP Saket Gokhale questioned the government’s stance, pointing out that the assessment was prepared at the request of the ...

Per a ministry of tourism statement released this week, the Union government has allocated ₹27.57 crore since 2016-17 to ...

The 1956 Andaman and Nicobar Islands Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Regulation prohibits entry within five nautical miles of the island to safeguard the tribal community from the risk of mainland ...

Curious travelers beware — stepping into these forbidden places could land you in serious trouble! 1. North Sentinel Island – Home to the Most Isolated Tribe Location: Andaman and Nicobar Islands One ...

North Sentinel Island is home to a mysterious tribe called the Sentinelese, who have lived in isolation for thousands of years. This small island, part of India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands ...

What began as a promise of refuge has now turned into a prolonged exile, leaving the Nicobarese stranded between a past they mourn and a present they cannot accept. The abrupt name change of the ...

The tribe, which has a small population of under 50, lives on the North Sentinel Island of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The journal highly recommends preserving the diary of Chau, as it ...