PORT BLAIR — An American visiting one of the islands in India’s remote cluster of Andaman and Nicobar has been killed by a group of hunter-gatherers who live there isolated from the outside world, two ...

In the wake of the tsunami, there was abundant amateur video of the disaster coming from tourist hotspots, like Phuket, Thailand. But some of the villages and islands in the path of the devastating ...

THE Todas are a pastoral hill-tribe in the Nilagiri region of Southern India, whose singularly interesting social condition fairly entitled them to be described in a volume by themselves. Colonel ...

India is home to over 700 tribes, each with its own unique culture, traditions, and way of life. These tribes have played a ...

Scientists studying a primitive tribe in India have uncovered a genetic signature previously unknown in Indian genomes that traces back to early Dravidian-speaking people from the Iranian plateau, ...

NEW DELHI — Indian authorities were struggling Thursday to figure out how to recover the body of an American killed after wading ashore on an isolated island cut off from the modern world. John Allen ...

INDIAN ethnology has been a favourite exercising ground for theorists. Recent political developments have done much to encourage them along certain lines. Starting from above and adopting the view of ...

By A Representative In a major pre-budget mobilization, the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA), India’s leading public health ...

The growing clamour for evidence-based policymaking in India has increased the importance of data quality. Unfortunately, government statistics for marginalised communities, such as tribes, are often ...

A letter penned by Jharkhand’s Finance Minister Radha Krishna Kishore to Chief Minister Hemant Soren, highlighting the deteriorating condition of Scheduled Castes (SCs) in the state, has triggered ...