Talk:Andaman and Nicobar Islands

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How come th epopulation mentioned in this article (288 000) is smaller than that of Andaman islands alone (315 000) ? --Kummi 20:42, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

I do not think the following statement is correct: "It became an Indian union territory (UT) along with the declaration of India's independence in 1947."

The original Constitution of India says in the First Schedule, Part II: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands...The territory which immediately before the commencement of this Constitution was comprised in the Chief Commissioner's Province of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

This implies that the Andaman and Nicobar Islands was a Chief Commissioner's Province between 1947 and 1950, not a Union Territory. --Manojb 09:58, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Austrian colony?

de:Andamanen und Nikobaren states, that the Andamans and Nicobar Islands were an Austrian colony between 1778 and 1783. Does anyone know more about it? Gugganij 11:27, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Official Languages?

The languages mentioned on the page as official languages of the ANI are not OFFICIAL. There are significant populations that speak these languages there but the union territory's government does not recognize them as OFFICIAL. The Union Government recognises 22 languages in the 8th Schedule but Nicobarese etc are not on that list. So what list is this refering to? Languages recognised/allowed in legal proceedings are not necessarily OFFICIAL languages —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.199.177.246 (talk) 08:33, 8 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Proposed merging

This article has very much in parallel with the Andaman Islands article. The two groups of islands have very much a common history. I saw that each one has much useful information which the other does not, and a reader getting to only one would miss the information availalbe in the other. .Adam Keller 08:51, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't really have a problem with merging, though I am concerned that a combined article could get quite large. I presume that, to be consistent, the Nicobar Islands article should be merged as well. Given that much of the history does overlap, there are significant differences in (for example) ecology and ethnology. A combined article would need to have, as well as a section on common history and current administrative status, two large separate sections on the two island groups where they differ.
An alternative would be to keep three separate articles but tidy them up considerably and move information from one to another where appropriate to minimise overlap. Maias 04:19, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

The Andamans and the Nicobars are both distinct island groups that ought to be treated separately. ANI is a political entity and needs to be retained unless you also delete all the other articles about states and territories of India. Esquimo 08:45, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

The best way is as the editors suggest above to keep three separate articles and linked them with each other. The Andamans and the Nicobars are distinct island groups and having different stock of natives.Lustead 16:49, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The name "Nicobar"

The name Nicobar is not from the Malay (allegedly "the land of the [naked] people"). It may be from Tamil though... I found a reference to that (with sources) here:

"From the thirteenth century, Arab geographers and historians began to call these islands Nakawari, Necuveram and Nakawara,
clearly derived from the Tamil Nakkavaram (Chakravarti 1994:23)".

Opinions, anyone? Martijn →!?← 15:38, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The info on this page is not original.

http://www.and.nic.in/florafauna.htm I'm not a wikinaut so...........I'll leave it to anybody that will fix it to do it. This page was two clicks away from the homepage yesterday and it is total crap. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.144.224.182 (talk) 15:51, 6 December 2007 (UTC)