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International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
Year : 2016, Volume : 6, Issue : 11
First page : ( 167) Last page : ( 177)
Online ISSN : 2249-2496.

Nicobarese Tribe in Transition: Between Primitive and Modern

Gupta Ashish

Guest Faculty Department of Anthropology, Dr H S Gour Central University, Sagar (M P), India

Online published on 24 April, 2018.

Abstract

The term Nicobarese refers to the dominant tribes of the Nicobar Islands. On each island, the people have specific names, but together they are the Nicobarese. The Nicobarese may not have been the first people to ive in the islands. The Nicobarese language is part of the Austroasiatic language family. Most of the people of the islands are of the Christian religion. Nicobarese are the foremost developed tribe of Andaman and Nicobar Islands as compared to the other tribal of these islands. Nicobarese was facing transition phase in which neither they were primitive nor they were modern and this theme was exploring by author through holistic Anthropological perspectives.

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Keywords

Nicobarese Tribe Primitive Modern Little Andaman.

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