This is the first census being conducted after the Andaman and Nicobar administration’s decision, in December 2014, to not go ...

But other isolated communities who moved to the islands from South East Asia centuries ago fared far worse than the indigenous peoples, evidence suggests. The aboriginal tribes - some of the oldest ...

Dr Ratan Chandra Kar earned the Jarawa tribe’s trust and helped them survive a deadly measles outbreak, changing their future ...

The Jarawas, hostile until about a decade ago, were befriended by "contact parties" who landed on their beaches with gifts at regular intervals. But their forest homeland was ripped open when the ...