PORT BLAIR — An American visiting one of the islands in India’s remote cluster of Andaman and Nicobar has been killed by a group of hunter-gatherers who live there isolated from the outside world, two ...

The study by Das and his collaborators at Mangalore University and the University of Bern, Switzerland, found that the ...

In the wake of the tsunami, there was abundant amateur video of the disaster coming from tourist hotspots, like Phuket, Thailand. But some of the villages and islands in the path of the devastating ...

THE Todas are a pastoral hill-tribe in the Nilagiri region of Southern India, whose singularly interesting social condition fairly entitled them to be described in a volume by themselves. Colonel ...

NEW DELHI — Indian authorities were struggling Thursday to figure out how to recover the body of an American killed after wading ashore on an isolated island cut off from the modern world. John Allen ...

Jammu, Sept 30 (PTI) A tribal affairs research body has demanded Primitive Tribal Group (PTG) status for Gujjars and Bakerwals communities of Jammu and Kashmir, saying they constitute 80 per cent of ...

INDIAN ethnology has been a favourite exercising ground for theorists. Recent political developments have done much to encourage them along certain lines. Starting from above and adopting the view of ...

We descendants of primitive tribes face high-priority challenges. Our primary challenge is to set aside primitive and current extremist physical, spiritual, cultural and political differences and ...

The morning mist still clung to the hills when Nanita Jadhav heard the tempo truck approaching her tiny hamlet. At 12 years old, she has learnt to be wary of outsiders coming to their remote corner of ...

A dentist's 30-year mission to preserve Toda culture has blossomed into a government-backed project. The Kuttawddy Centre in ...