The battle between the great Andamanese and the British regime is known as ‘The Aberdeen war’.

However, they made another attempt to capture Port Blair in 1858 and succeeded, only to be met by the soldiers of the Great Andamanese tribe in 1859. When the British first tried to enter the island in around 1788-89 the Andamanese tribes, with their total population of 5000-8000, were able to resist them, resulting in the British to move to Port Conwallis and withdraw from all attempts to obtain Port Blair and Ross island for about 60 years. But after the coming of the British, things changed. Until the late 18th century, the Andamanese peoples were preserved from outside influences by their fierce rejection of contacts (which included killing any shipwrecked foreigners) and by the remoteness of the islands. These tribes spoke different but related languages were of Negrito origin and were related by culture and geography. The Great Andamanese is a collective term used for 10 different tribes that lived in most of the large islands in the Andaman. The ‘Mongoloid’ tribes probably came to the islands from the Malay-Burma coast several thousand years ago. They also collect honey, roots, and berries from the forest. All are nomadic hunter-gatherers, hunting wild pig and monitor lizard, and catching fish with bows and arrows. The ‘Negrito’ tribes are believed to have arrived in the islands from Africa up to 60,000 years ago. Whereas the Nicobar Islands are home to two ‘Mongoloid’ tribes – the Shompen and Nicobarese. The Andaman Islands are home to four ‘Negrito’ tribes were as – the Great Andamanese, Onge, Jarawa, and Sentinelese. The Andamanese and Nicobarese can be split into two broad tribal groups mainly based on their place of origin. The so-called “civilians” or city/town dwellers only came later, earliest a few hundred years ago. They have been dwelling in the forests and jungles of the islands for centuries, lead a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and appear to have lived in substantial isolation for thousands of years. It is safe to say that the original population of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands consists of aboriginal indigenous people, i.e.

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