What distinguishes this coffee-table book on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are its stunning photographs. However, ...

Madhumala Chattopadhyay, a Kolkata-born researcher, participated in the first friendly contact ever made with the hostile Sentinelese of the Andamans way back on January 4, 1991 The Tribune, now ...

The fate of the Jarawa perhaps provides the best-case scenario for what might happen to the tribes of Great Nicobar Island should the project continue. For the past few decades, the Jarawa have ...

Tribes have traditionally refused to pay taxes but preferred trading with communities, and occasionally offering military services to kings. The epics are full of stories where sages and kings marry ...

The tribes are thought to have inhabited their ... “We ensured that no aspect of the process would compromise the dignity of the Jarawa people,” Mr Sharma added. However, activists working ...

The decision to issue identification documents that confirm an individual’s right to participate in elections is being promoted by the Narendra Modi government as a historic step towards the ...

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) — One tribe in South Dakota lifted its order banning Gov. Kristi Noem from its territories just days before the Republican was set to appear before a ...

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