Social Geography
Onge tribe
▪ For the first time, nine Onge tribal children have cleared the Class 10 exam, with their admissions formalised and classes beginning on July 15.
▪ Onges are one of the most primitive tribes in India. They belong to the Negrito racial stock.
▪ They inhabit Little Andaman Island, the most southerly island in the Andaman archipelago.
▪ They are semi-nomadic tribes and fully dependent on the food provided by nature.
▪ The Onge speak their own language, which has no script.
▪ The religion of the Onges is simple animism. Neither ceremonial worship nor any kind of propitiation is practiced by them. They believe in different classes of spirits-spirits of the wood, the sea, disease, storm, and ancestors.
