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India's indigenous population Andaman island in the past ranged to many thousands but today only a few hundreds. It is thanks to the the 200 years of British colony and 3 years of Japanese military occupation/rule in the Andaman islands
Source "List of notified Scheduled Tribes" (PDF). Census India. p. 27. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
" In the 18th century there was 7000 of them but today remains only 400-450. "
The five major groups of Andamanese found by the European colonists were:
Great Andamanese, extinct 54 admixed Individuals [22]
Jarawa now estimated 250 to 400 verified to exist in pure form
Jangil or Rutland Jarawa, extinct[14]
Onge, now fewer than 100 verified to exist in pure form
Sentinelese, now estimated to be 100 to 200.
Did they kill them because they were Black and short ?
By the British
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There is evidence that some sections of the British Indian administration were working deliberately to annihilate the tribes.[10] After the mid-19th century, British established penal colonies on the islands and an increasing numbers of mainland Indian and Karen settlers arrived, encroaching on former territories of the Andamanese. This accelerated the decline of the tribes. "
By the Japanese
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japane...ndaman_Islands
" In the 1940s, the Jarawa were bombed by Japanese forces for their hostility.[14] "
They live this far away from mainland India. I don't why why the invaders were trying to extinct when they were already so small in numbers.
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