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Nicobarese Tribe in Transition: Between
Primitive and Modern
Ashish Gupta
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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.
Keywords:Nicobarese TribePrimitiveModern Little Andaman
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Guest Faculty, Department of Anthropology, Dr H S Gour Central University, Sagar (M
P), INDIA: