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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FUNdaMANTAL" data-source="post: 13082247" data-attributes="member: 357107">Jarawa people (Andaman Islands)The Jarawa (also Järawa, Jarwa) are one of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adivasi" target="_blank">adivasi</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples" target="_blank">indigenous peoples</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andaman_Islands" target="_blank">Andaman Islands</a>  in India. Their present numbers are estimated at between 250-400  individuals. Since they have largely shunned interactions with  outsiders, many particulars of their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society" target="_blank">society</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture" target="_blank">culture</a> and traditions are poorly understood. Their name means "foreigners" or "hostile people" in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aka-Bea" target="_blank">Aka-Bea</a>. Along with other indigenous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andamanese" target="_blank">Andamanese</a>  peoples, they have inhabited the islands for at least several thousand  years, and most likely a great deal longer. The Andaman Islands have  been known to outsiders since <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_history" target="_blank">antiquity</a>;  however, until quite recent times they were infrequently visited, and  such contacts were predominantly sporadic and temporary. For the greater  portion of their history their only significant contact has been with  other Andamanese groups; the experience of such a lengthy period of  isolation almost completely lacking in external cultural influences is  equaled by few other groups in the world, if at all[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" target="_blank">citation needed</a>]. There is some indication that the Jarawa regarded the now-extinct <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jangil" target="_blank">Jangil</a>  tribe as a parent tribe from which they split centuries or millennia  ago, even though the Jarawa outnumbered (and eventually out-survived)  the Jangil.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarawa_people_%28Andaman_Islands%29#cite_note-portman1898-0" target="_blank">[1]</a> The Jangil (also called the Rutland Island Aka Bea) were presumed extinct by 1931, sixteen years prior to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_of_India" target="_blank">Indian independence</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarawa_people_%28Andaman_Islands%29#cite_note-vanDriem2001-1" target="_blank">[2]</a></blockquote>

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