Triloknath Pandit

Triloknath Pandit
NationalityIndian
OccupationAnthropologist
Known forNorth Sentinel Island survey

Triloknath Pandit (born 1935[citation needed]) is an Indian anthropologist.[1] He was the first professional anthropologist to land on the North Sentinel Island in 1967,[2] leading the team that made the first friendly contact with the Sentinelese people on 4 January 1991.[3][4][failed verification]

His expeditions to North Sentinel Island began in 1967 and were initially hostile as the Sentinelese people hid in the jungle and shot arrows at him and his crew on later trips. For 24 years, Pandit and his team brought a variety of gifts and offerings that eventually led to the first friendly contact in 1991. He was head of the Andaman & Nicobar Regional Centre of the Anthropological Survey of India.[5] His father was a Kashmiri professor and he is a Kashmiri Pandit. [6]

Works

  • Pandit, T. N. (1985). The Tribal and Non-Tribal in Andaman Islands: A historical perspective. Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society 20:111-131.
  • Pandit, T. N. (1990). The Sentinelese. Kolkata: Seagull Books.
  • Pandit, T. N. & Chattopadhyay, M. (1989). Meeting the Sentinel Islanders: The Least Known of the Andaman Hunter-Gatherers. Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society 24:169-178.

References

  1. ^ Barry, Ellen (5 May 2017). "A Season of Regret for an Aging Tribal Expert in India". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 25 February 2023. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  2. ^ Evald, Pierre. "The Andaman Islanders - a state of the art report 1996". Retrieved 18 March 2013.
  3. ^ McGirk, Tim (10 January 1993). "Islanders running out of isolation: Tim McGirk in the Andaman Islands reports on the fate of the Sentinelese". The Independent. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
  4. ^ Mukerjee, Madhusree (2003). The Land of Naked People: Encounters with Stone Age Islanders. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 52. ISBN 978-0618197361. Trilokinath%20Pandit.
  5. ^ "The man who spent decades befriending isolated Sentinelese tribe". BBC News. 27 November 2018.
  6. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/world/asia/anthropologist-india-andaman-island-tribes.html


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