Meet the Indian Woman Behind the World's first friendly contact with the Sentinelese.
Meet the Indian Woman Behind the World’s first friendly contact with the Sentinelese. On 4 January, 1991, more than 1,200 kms from the Indian mainland in the Bay of Bengal, a young Indian woman anthropologist waded waist-deep into the coral reefs to hand over a coconut to a man from the Sentinelese tribe. This was the first-ever friendly contact with this hostile tribe of the Andamans. Sentinelese--one of the few un-contacted people in the world, who have lived in the North Sentinel Islands of the Andamans for an estimated 60,000 years, shunning any contact with the outside world. Traced back to the Palaeolithic age, they are considered as the first inhabitants of India. Many attempts have been made and innumerable risks were taken to build a connect with the tribe but all were turned away with bows and arrows. Small parties were sent by the Anthro