Encroaching world threatens India’s last ‘uncontacted’ tribe

SRI VIJAYA PURAM: One of the last outsiders to make authorized visits to India’s only “uncontacted” tribe says it may be time to reconnect with the isolated people — in order to shield them from an encroaching world. Anthropologist Anstice Justin, 71, took part in the government’s limited contact missions to the restricted North Sentinel island in the Andaman Sea between 1986 and 2004. The island’s inhabitants are famously resistant to engaging with outsiders, and even killed a US missionary who made an illegal visit in 2018.

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