The first Covid-19 casualty in the Kashmir Valley, a 65-year-old man from Srinagar, had travelled with the group to different states includ...

Twenty-seven years ago, a 13-member team established the first and only friendly contact with the Sentinelese which had a young woman anthr...

In 1991, a 13-member team met the reclusive Sentinelese tribe on their shores. The tribesmen, apparently, were curious about young anthropo...

In the late 19th century, the British administration contemplated exterminating the entire aboriginal population, considering them savages ...

The first modern settlement of outsiders was established in 1789 by Lt. Blair at Chatham Island, now part of Port Blair.

The North Sentinelese are among the only surviving direct descendants of the first humans in Asia.

Scientists at NIBMG, West Bengal, working with those from the Pompeu Fabra University, Spain, made this discovery after analysing genetic s...

Genetic studies suggest the Andaman tribals go back over 65,000 years, but why don’t our history and culture books acknowledge these deplet...

There are said to be as many as one hundred “uncontacted tribes” still living in some of the most isolated regions of the world.

India is home to a large number of indigenous people, who still live by their traditional customs. Talented Lambadi women from Rajasthan si...

The Andaman Trunk Road runs the length of the Andamans. Cycling along it, the author sees signs of trouble in this fragile archipelago.

In the absence of policy and a willingness to understand the untouched way of life, the alienation between isolated tribes & govt will pers...