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About Andaman and Nicobar
The archived history of Andaman and Nicobar is restricted. It is trusted that Marco Polo was among the first from the West to set foot on one of the islands. Kanhoji Angre, a Maratha chief naval officer had his base on the island in the mid-eighteenth century.
From that point, he assaulted passing Portuguese, Dutch and English dealer vessels on their approach to or from their different Asian settlements.
In 1713, his naval force even succeeded in catching the yacht of the British Governor of Bombay. Notwithstanding numerous endeavours by the British and later a joint military power of British and Portuguese maritime strengths, Kanhoji Angre was never vanquished.
The British set up their first settlement in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 1789, which was deserted in 1796. The British at long last added the islands in the nineteenth century adding them to their domain. They transformed it into a reformatory state for Indian flexibility warriors.
The development of the scandalous Cellular Jail was finished in 1908. Many hostile to British Indians were tormented to death or just executed here. With the Second World War, Japanese troops possessed the islands and the nearby tribes started guerrilla exercises to drive them out.
At the point when India accomplished autonomy in 1947, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands were consolidated into the Indian Union.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands are situated between the latitudes 6° to 14° North and longitudes 92° to 94° east. Situated in the Bay of Bengal, this gathering of 572 islands lies 193 km far from Cape Negrais in Myanmar, 1255 km from Calcutta, and 1190 km from Chennai.
The two imperative gatherings of islets are Ritchie’s Archipelago and Labyrinth Islands. The Nicobar Islands are situated toward the south of the Andamans, 121 km from the Little Andaman Island. A group of aggregate 572 islands, just 36 islands are inhabitated.
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands embody around 572 islands framed by a submarine mountain range, which isolates the Bay of Bengal from the Andaman Sea. The islands accomplish most extreme elevation at Saddle Peak (730 m), framed essentially of limestone, sandstone, and dirt.
The Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands has an unfathomable woodland asset base with 7,171 sq km of the aggregate zone of island secured by backwoods. An expansive mixture of timber is found in the Andaman gathering of islands.
The Islands have reported the event of diatomaceous earth, gold, limestone, nickel, selenite, and sulfur. The Oil and Natural Gas Commission is proceeding with the investigation for oil and gas there.
The Union Territory has the various little scale, town, and handiworks units. The quantity of fare arranged units is likewise expanding in the agro-processing segments.
The Andaman and Nicobar Integrated Development Corporation has made its vicinity felt in common supplies, tourism, fisheries, commercial enterprises, and modern financing exercises. Around 50,000 hectares of area is under development here.
Paddy is the primary nourishment and is, for the most part, developed in the Andaman gathering of islands, though coconut and areca nut are the principle money harvests of the Nicobar gathering of islands.
Various types of natural products, for example, mango, sapota, orange, banana, papaya, pineapple, and some root harvests are additionally developed on the islands.