A Study on the Colonization of Britishers to Andaman & Nicobar Islands

The history of the Andaman and Nicobar islands Starts from the Ramayana period. In the Ramayana period it was called as Handuman, as time passes away this place was renamed. In the 1st century this place was called as Agadaemon Angademan according to Ptolemy. Travellers from different parts of the world visited this place. Arab Travellers visited on 19th century, Marco Polo visited in 13th century who describes this place as Angamanian, Friar Odoric in 14th century, and Caesar Fredericke in 16th century. In the 17th century, Lieutenant Archibald Blair of the Royal Indian Navy founded a naval base on a small island adjoining South Andaman merely by clearing forests, setting up cottages, and planting kitchen gardens and orchards. Even so, the base marked the arrival of civilization, of human control over the vegetative wild