In the past, other Andamanese had met a similar fate. Nevertheless, these young deaths weighed on the conscience of many administrators. They decided to train Andamanese children in Port Blair itself.

As COVID-19 reaches the Andaman Islands, the story of the Great Andamanese tribe should be a wake-up call for administrators The island’s largest and most friendly tribe was nearly wiped out by ...

THE inhabitants of the Andaman Islands have long been recognised as one of the most primitive races of mankind. By their geographical position and their ferocity towards strangers, they were ...

Allele distribution patterns exhibit considerable variation among the natives Andaman and Nicobar Islanders. The Great Andamanese had a wider range of alleles compared to the Onge and Nicobarese ...

Though not a single Andamanese has ever made their way to the Indian mainland for food, employment opportunities, or the desire to be more “advanced”, India has still found its way to them.

My initial survey established that Great Andamanese languages were unrelated to those of the Jarawa and the Onge, which may constitute their own language family.Realizing that I had to document ...

A pair of Andamanese were caught stealing crops from the colony’s gardens; they, too, were sent to the growing establishment as compulsory inmates, followed by their families.

Great Andamanese tribes have doubled their population to around 74 in the last 20 years since the tsunami. They have made ...

Techa is from the Great Andamanese tribe, an indigenous community living in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands – a union territory of India at the junction of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.

NEW DELHI: In a groundbreaking study, biologists have uncovered a remarkable and worrying shift in the breeding behaviour of the Andamanese Charles Darwin’s frog (Minervarya charlesdarwini), a ...

Coronavirus has struck a remote tribe in India's Andamans archipelago. Ten members of the Greater Andamanese have tested positive over the past month, a health official told the BBC. Four of them ...

BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, August 28: Nine cases of Covid-19 have been recorded among the Great Andamanese tribe, setting off alarm bells in the Andaman and Nicobar ...