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This book of pictorial description covers the major communities, both tribal and non-tribal, inhabiting different islands of Andaman and Nicobar. The objective of the book is to render a sensitive and succinct account of the people, both for the lay and specialized readers. The photographs as well as the written texti comprising this book have come from the Anthropological Survey of India. The book have migrants from different parts of the country, and also from Burmut. These islands are, therefore, truly multicultural and plural, presenting the diversity of the mainland. Often. the local people call the Andaman and Nicobar group of Islands mini-India. The earliest inhabitants to these Islands were migrants from Afrien, and for thousands of years, they kept their respective gene pools and cultures intact: but with the advent of the colonial rule. their communities suffered a lot. The story of their exploitation is written on the lives of the Great  Andamanese, who decimated to the brink of extinction, but the efforts of the Indian state brought a new lease of life to them. One of the submissions of the book is that the tribal situation in Andaman and Nicobar Islands Is inextricably linked with the interests of the non-tribal people.