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To sophisticated visitors the Andaman islands would even today look like a dreamland. Aboriginal tribes are not the only inhabitants of these islands as was the case ages ago: a large number of settlers belonging to different tribes and ethnic groups have brought in some element of traditional cosmopolitan culture. Yet the savage beauty of the islands watered by the Bay of Bengal, the perennial economic features and the rather somber backdrop all over strikes ...
There has been great interest recently in the living conditions and economic and other development possibilities of the Andaman Islands. But the Nicrobarese Islands have not attracted the same type of interest. Tourism has flourished in recent years in the Andamans and thus the understanding of that land and its people among the rest of India and the world has been enhanced. But the same cannot be said about the Nicobarese islands. The most essential thing in the ...