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Triloknath Pandit

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'''Triloknath Pandit''' is an [[India]]n [[anthropologist]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/world/asia/anthropologist-india-andaman-island-tribes.html |title=A Season of Regret for an Aging Tribal Expert in India |last=Barry |first=Ellen |date=2017-05-05 |newspaper=The New York Times |language=en-US |access-date=2018-01-22}}</ref>
Pandit was the first professional anthropologist to land on the [[North Sentinel Island]] in 1967.<ref name="PierreEvald">{{cite web|url=http://www.pierreevald.dk/misc_files/andaman.htm|title=The Andaman Islanders - a state of the art report 1996.|last=Evald|first=Pierre |accessdate=18 March 2013}}</ref> He led the team that established the first friendly contact with the [[Sentinelese|Sentinelese people]] on 4 January 1991.<ref name="TI-19930110">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/islanders-running-out-of-isolation-tim-mcgirk-in-the-andaman-islands-reports-on-the-fate-of-the-sentinelese-1477566.html|title=Islanders running out of isolation: Tim McGirk in the Andaman Islands reports on the fate of the Sentinelese|last=McGirk|first=Tim|date=1993-01-10|work=The Independent|accessdate=18 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/landofnakedpeopl0000muke |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/landofnakedpeopl0000muke/page/52 52] |quote=Trilokinath%20Pandit. |title=The Land of Naked People: Encounters with Stone Age Islanders |last=Mukerjee |first=Madhusree |date=2003 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |isbn=978-0618197361 |language=en}}</ref>

His expeditions to North Sentinel Island began in 1967 and were initially hostile as the Sentinelese people hid in the jungle and would eventually fire arrows at him and his crew on later trips. For 24 years, Pandit and his team brought a variety of gifts and offerings that eventually led to the first friendly contact in 1991. He was head of the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands|Andaman & Nicobar]] Regional Centre of the [[Anthropological Survey of India]].
<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46350130</ref>

==Works==
* Pandit, T. N. (1985). The Tribal and Non-Tribal in Andaman Islands: A historical perspectives. ''Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society'' 20:111-131.
* Pandit, T. N. (1990). ''[https://books.google.com/books?hl=&id=5W1DAAAAYAAJ The Sentinelese]''. Kolkata: Seagull Books.
* Pandit, T. N. & Chattopadhyay, M. (1989). Meeting the Sentinel Islanders: The Least Known of the Andaman Hunter-Gatherers. ''Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society'' 24:169-178.

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