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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Jarawas video recent: JNU scholar by Manash Pratim Gohain

Jarawas video recent: JNU scholar by Manash Pratim Gohain

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published Published on Jan 13, 2012   modified Modified on Jan 13, 2012

Terming the coming in contact of the Jarawas of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands with tourists and outsiders as hazardous, research scholar of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Pramod Kumar claims that this makes the tribals susceptible to communicable diseases and endangers them further.

While Kumar claims that the video in circulation exposing the Jarawa tribals in the Andamans to tourists is relatively new, experts claim that the video proves that this happened in knowledge of the authorities. Kumar has spent four years, from 2003 to 2007, with the Jarawas documenting the tribes for his PhD thesis.

Meanwhile, senior faculty of Centre for Linguistics, JNU and expert on languages of Andaman Islands, professor Anvita Abbi, who has done extensive work on the endangered languages of Andaman Island since 2001, questioned as to how human safari has been allowed despite a Supreme Court's order to the administration to implement the Jarawa buffer zone notification.

Kumar, who knows the Jarawa language, said: "Though the faces in the video is not clear (the faces has been blurred in the video shown by Times Now), but one can be certain that is a new video as the girl is wearing a maxi. This is a new phenomenon, probably done after coming in contact with the outsiders as Jarawas don't wear maxi or any clothes. Also one cannot ascertain whether this has been done in connivance with the police as in the video one can also hear a male voice saying 'someone is coming please stop'."

But Abbi said: "The fact that in the very beginning of the video one can see a uniformed officer indicates that this happened in the knowledge of the authorities.

How can the administration claim they have no knowledge of this?"

The great Andamanese is a collective term for the various aboriginal inhabitants of the Islands and in the mid-19th century at the time of British advent in these Islands there were estimated 5,000 tribes.


The Times of India, 12 January, 2012, http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-12/india/30619032_1_jarawa-tribals-video-jnu-scholar


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