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Captain Cheap shoots Midshipman Cozens in the face.

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David Grann’s book, which delves deeper into the “Wager affair”, distinguishes itself with a broad thematic scope.

John Allen Chau in an undated image obtained from a social media post on November 23, 2018.

Behind evangelist Chau’s fatal mission to the Sentinelese

Examining the life of evangelist John Allen Chau, a new documentary raises questions about faith, colonialism, and the right to remain uncontacted.

Rachna Dhingra, social activist.

‘Court abdicated its responsibility’: Rachna Dhingra on the Bhopal gas tragedy

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Cover of Andamanush Nicobarese

Dangerously touristy

A free mix of fiction and lopsided depictions of reality, the book is a historian’s and anthropologist’s nightmare.

Anvita Abbi: ‘Indigenous languages being killed’

In conversation with the member of the Expert Committee of the UNESCO World Atlas of Languages.

Great Nicobar is home to two isolated indigenous communities—the Shompen and the Nicobarese—who were the sole inhabitants of the island until the government set up seven revenue villages, settling 330 ex-servicemen families (settlers) from 1969 to 1980. In picture, a rare shot of the Shompen, who are primarily fishers and hunter-gatherers.

Great Nicobar: Whose land is it?

The indigenous Shompen and the Nicobarese say they were lied to at the project’s public hearing.

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