INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
"It is also the place that hosted the first unfurling of our Tiranga by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Ji and also the cellular jail in which
Veer Savarkar Ji and other freedom fighters struggled for an independent nation," he said
(Photo: PTI)3 min read Last Updated : Sep 13 2024 | 7:37 PM IST
Port Blair, the capital city of the Union Territory of Andaman and
to free the nation from colonial imprints as the Andaman and Nicobar Islands had an "unparalleled place" in the country's freedom struggle
symbolises the victory achieved in India's freedom struggle and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands' unique role in it, the home minister
once served as the naval base of the Chola Empire is now poised to be the critical base for India's strategic and development aspirations,
floats in splendid isolation in the Bay of Bengal
Once a hill range extending from Myanmar to Indonesia, these picturesque undulating islands and islets are covered with dense rain-fed, damp
The smaller Nicobars comprise some 22 main islands (10 inhabited)
The Andaman and Nicobars are separated by the Ten Degree Channel, which is 150 kilometres wide, according to the Union Territory's tourism
However, indications from genetic, cultural and linguistic isolation studies point to habitation going back 30,000 to 60,000 years, well
least 10 distinct sub groups and languages; the Jarawa: the jungle (or Rutland Jarawa); the Onge; and the Sentinelese (the most isolated of
restricted to the interior of Great Nicobar.First Published: Sep 13 2024 | 5:58 PMIST
