The Jarawa, a Berber tribal confederacy that flourished in northwest Africa during the seventh century CE.
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The main tribes are Onge, Andamanese, Shompen, Nicobarese and Jarawa.
It has a tourist complex which offers a range of water sports facilities.
Built in 1975, this small but informative museum showcases the four Negroid tribes of the Andamans, viz, the Jarawas, Sentinelese, Andamanese and the Onges, and two Mongoloid tribes of the Nicobars, viz, the Nicobarese and the Shompens.
In the last century, loggers, settlers and poachers pillaged the forests, sealing the fate of the hapless Jarawas.
The belief of the dominant society that the Jarawas are backward and that they need improvement is actually a racist notion based on an ethnocentric viewpoint.
SANE has pleaded in its petition to ban all contact with the Jarawas, to evict all encroachers, camps and outposts from the area traditionally occupied by them and to close the Andaman trunk road to all traffic.
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