About the book: 1984 / The book of the progressive Indian publicist Iqbal Singh about the tragic fate of the almost completely disappeared indigenous population of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands was written on the basis of the author’s personal impressions with the involvement of a large factual material from archives and literary sources. For a long time, these islands served as a support base for the British colonialists in the Indian Ocean and after the brutally suppressed Great People's Uprising of 1857–1859. became a place where fighters for freedom and independence of India were sent to lifelong hard labor.