Great Andamanese is a collective term used to describe a tribe or indigenous people settled in most part of the Great Andaman archipelago in the south-eastern Bay of Bengal. The Great Andamanese, along with the Jarawas, Onges and the Sentinelese form the Andamanses tribal people. The identity of the Great Andamanese is mainly made up by their cultural similarity and linguistic semblance. The Great Andamanese originally had ten distinct groups (on basis of distribution from north to south), namely, Aka-Cari, Aka-Kora, Aka-Bo, Aka-Jeru, Aka-Kol, Aka-Kede, Akar-Bale, Aka-Bea, Oko-Juwoi  and A-Pucikwar, who had survived on these islands for over thousands of years and undisturbed by external forces. But the effort of the British rulers to influence these tribes resulted in their sharp decimation  [...]