Seeing Jarawas in their habitat is not fundamentally different from seeing Japanese in Japan or Tutsis in Rwanda. Every Republic Day, the government organizes tribal dances, and nobody call these ...

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

Anthropologists estimate the island's more primitive tribes of Jarawas, Great Andamanese, Onges, Sentinelese and Shompens have dwindled to only 400 to 1,000 people.

JIRKATANG, India — Armed with bows and arrows, seven men from the ancient Jarawa tribe came out of the forest Thursday for the first time since India’s isolated Anadaman and Nicobar isl… ...

The Jarawas didn’t have any contact with government authorities until 1996. A year later, tribesmen stormed a police outpost and killed a guard with arrows.

The Jarawas would also occasionally attack settlements adjoining their habitation. Considered one of the most isolated people on earth, ...

But the Jarawas are not the only tribe that has been threatened by modern civilization. Click through the gallery to see five other groups of indigenous people who struggle to hold on to their ...

The Jarawas had armed clashes with authorities until the 1990s, killing several police officers. Samir Acharya, head of the independent Society for Andaman and Nicobar Ecology, ...

First exposed by tribal rights group Survival International in 2010 and brought to light by an unsettling video uploaded by British newspaper The Observer, dozens of visitors to the remote Andaman ...

The Jarawas belong to the oldest Mongolian tribe who had remained untouched by the outside world for about 60,000 years. The tribe is found in the south-eastern part of South Andaman Island.