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The girls in front of him, naked from the waist up, obeyed. A tourist's camera panned round to another young woman, also naked and awkwardly holding a bag of grain in front of her. "Dance for me," the policeman commanded. The young woman giggled, looked shy and hopped from foot to foot. The camera swung back to the others who clapped, swayed and jumped. This kind of video is the trophy tourists dream of when they set off into the jungles of the Andaman Islands "on safari". The Jarawa tribe is 403-strong. The role of the police is to protect tribespeople from unwelcome and intrusive outsiders.
Every day hundreds of tourist cars line up on the Andaman Trunk Road, which winds through the reserve. But, on the day the Observer visited, when the gates opened the cameras immediately started clicking.