Imperial Gazetteer of India. Great Britain India Office, Clarendon Press, 1908. ... The name has always been in historical times some form of Andaman, which more than probably represents Handuman, the Malay from Hanuman.
Spencer Wells. The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey. Princeton University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-691-11532-X. ... the population of south-east Asia prior to 6000 years ago was composed largely of groups of hunter-gatherers very similar to modern Negritos ... So, both the Y-chromosome and the mtDNA paint a clear picture of a coastal leap from Africa to south-east Asia, and onward to Australia ... DNA has given us a glimpse of the voyage, which almost certainly followed a coastal route va India ...
A History of Asia. Allyn and Bacon, 1964. ... Maldives, Nicobar, and Andaman islands all were brought under the sway of its navy. In the Tamil peninsula itself Chola subdued the kingdoms of Pandya ...
Comment on „Reconstructing the origin of Andaman islanders“ // Science 311 (5760). 2006. DOI:10.1126/science.1120176. с. 470; author reply 470. Andamanese, Tamil and Malayalam are the major languages spoken here
