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

Ripe bananas make us sick.” 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.

Ripe bananas make us sick.” 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 Jarawa tribe in India’s Andaman islands face extinction as poaching and tourism threaten their survival.

We are in the forest in Balughat," said one of the men, Ashu. Even though the Jarawas sometimes meet with local officials to receive government-funded supplies, the tribe is wary of visitors.

Newspapers and TV anchors are waxing indignant about a video showing the tribal Jarawas of the Andaman Islands dancing for tourists in exchange for food and trinkets. Many NGOs are demanding ...

Samir Acharya, head of the independent Society for Andaman and Nicobar Ecology, said the Jarawas were peaceful until the British, and later the Indians, began encroaching on their territory.

Jirkatang police have had a love-hate relationship with the Jarawas. In 1997, a year after the tribe made its first-ever contact with government authorities, they stormed the Jirkatang police ...

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 ...

Some 400-strong, the Jarawas live in the thick forests of South and Middle Andaman hunting pig and monitor lizard and fishing with bows and arrows.