[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.405 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.405 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.405 - **Language:** English ### [c10.405](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.405) \*\*ANDAMAN\*\*, n.p. The name of a group of islands in the Bay of Bengal, inhabited by tribes of a negrito race, and now partially occupied as a convict settlement under the Government of India. The name (though perhaps obscurely indicated by Ptolemy—see H. Y. in \*P.R.G.S.\* 1881, p. 665) first appears distinctly in the Ar. narratives of the 9th century. \[The Ar. dual form is said to be from \*Agamitae\*, the Malay name of the aborigines.\] The persistent charge of cannibalism seems to have been unfounded. \[See E. H. Man, \*On the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands\*, Intro. xiii. 45.\] - [Previous: c10.404](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.404) - [Next: c10.406](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.406) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.405](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.405) · Pramāṇa