Hunter-gatherers of North Sentinel Island in the Andamans, and the most isolated people on earth. They have met every landing with arrows since the British first came ashore in 1867, and India long ago stopped trying: the 1956 Aboriginal Tribes Regulation makes the island a tribal reserve, bars anyone from coming within five kilometres, and the Navy patrols the water to keep it that way. Sovereignty over the island is Indian on paper only — the people who live there govern it, and the state has chosen not to. Population estimates run from 15 to 300; nobody has ever counted them up close.
Not an ending: the Sentinelese are still there. North Sentinel is a tribal reserve under the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Regulation 1956, approach within five kilometres is prohibited, and the Government of India has said it will not prosecute the islanders for killing anyone who comes ashore. They survived the 2004 tsunami and the uplift of their island.
Book-length account of North Sentinel and the Sentinelese, from the first British landings to the 2018 death of John Allen Chau.
Reporting on the Andamanese peoples and what contact did to them — the context that explains why the Sentinelese are left alone.
The standing anthropological history of the Andamanese from the penal colony onward, by the scholar most often cited on Sentinelese material culture.
The classic 1922 ethnography of the Andamanese; the baseline every later account argues with.