Detail Factual Overview

Indigenous Tribes

• Protected Tribes:
  • Sentinelese (North Sentinel Island): Uncontacted and fiercely isolated.
  • Jarwa, Onges, Shompens, Great Andamanese, Nicobarese.
• Special laws under Andaman and Nicobar Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Regulation (ANPATR), 1956 prevent outsiders from contacting them.