In a world of rapid urbanization, we often assume there are no tribes left isolated without external contact on Earth. But the Sentinelese people who inhabit the tiny island of North Sentinel that is part of the Andaman group of islands in the Bay of Bengal are living proof to the contrary.
They rejected all types of communication with outsiders repeatedly and they protect their land violently when anybody wants to establish contact.
This violent response is part of a pattern of violence that has marked most attempts at contact by outsiders with this tribe over the centuries.
New Delhi has deliberately carried out little development in much of the tribal area, intending to preserve the culture of the tribes people and for fear that bacterial contamination may cause their extinction. As of now, the Sentinelese will be left to the isolation they had so vigorously defended over many centuries.
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