People: from the A&N Association Album
Table of Contents 1. Introducing Eloi and George Weber 2. Introducing Simron Jit Singh 3. Prince Rashid's of the Nicobars
birthday party, Calcutta 2004 4. Activities around the fringes of the
the IUAES Conference, Calcutta 2004 5. After IUAES with Simron's parents
and friends, Lucknow 2004
1. Introducing George and Eloi Weber
- for information on Eloi and George Weber click here
2. Introducing Simron Jit Singh
- for information on Dr. Simron Jit Singh himself click here
- for books and articles written by Dr. Singh see Table of Contents of our NICOBAR SITE
3. Prince Rashid of the Nicobar's Birthday Party, Calcutta 2004
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Left: Prince Rashid's birthday was celebrated justbefore
the ICAES Conference started:
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Below: Prince Rashid with Dr. Phillip Endicott, geneticist, University of Oxford
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From left to right: Prince Rashid of the Nicobars(right), Dr. Simron Jit Singh (middle) and Dr. Heide Leigh-Theisen of Austria (left). |
4. Activities around the fringes of the the IUAES Conference, Calcutta 2004
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Dr. Anek R. Sankhyan, palaeoanthropologist at the Anthropological Survey of India, Calcutta, studies the trepanated Burzahom skull with George Weber, December 2004. Both were joint authors in 2001 of a study of this skull published (and reprinted on this web-site) as "Evidence of Surgery in Ancient India: Trepanation at Burzahom (Kashmir) over 4,000 Years Ago" in International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 11:375-380, 2001 - see Reprints on this site. |
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All gneticists (apart from George): Dr. Phillip Endicott, geneticist of Oxford University standing at the back and student geneticists at the Calcutta Police Forensic Laboratory |
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Dr. Kashyap, geneticist and head of the Calcutta Police Forensic Laboratory, with George Weber and an unidentified mutual friend |
5. After IUAES: in Lucknow with Simron's parents and friends
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Seated to the left Mr. B.S. Arora, father of Dr. Simron Jit Singh, Lucknow, late December Seated right Mr. Baldav Singh, retired Deputy Supterintendent of Police and Executive Member of Sarogini Nagar Sikh Temple, Lucknow, India - he has just presented the book to George Weber that George is displaying |
6. The first-ever Nicobari delegation outside India, 2005
Austria is the one of only three countries in Europe able to claim a "special relationship" with the Nicobar islands. Great Britain was the ruling colonial power in the islands for almost 80 years (1869 to 1947) and is definitively but perhaps not over-fondly remembered even today. There were, however, two other Europeans colonial powers in the Nicobars before the British and both are barely remembered: Denmark tried to rule the islands intermittently between 1756 and 1848 and Austria briefly had a colony with settlers there there 1778-1783 (for details see Austria in the Nicobars). None of these former powers retained much, or any, memory of it at home. Austria, too, forgot its colonial adventure.
Dr. Simron Jit Singh, born 1969 in Monghyr, India, has been a student of human ecology in Sweden and Austria for some years. He gained his doctorate from the University of Lundin 2004. He is still pursing his post-doctoral Nicobarese studies from his base in Austria. His research effort and publications have revived the long-lost memory of this first and only Austrian colony. Most Austrians were astonished and fascinated to hear that their country had once actually held a "tropical possession", however shortlived. Lead by the researchers of the University of Klagenfurt under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Marina Fischer Kowalski, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and other groupings, organized an exchange visit of Nicobari leaders to Austria.
The high point of this visit was when the President of the Republic of Austria, Heinz Fischer, presented the visitors with a beautifully prepared and lavishly illustrated volume of 230 bi-lingual pages in German and English: The Nicobar Islands - cultural choices in the aftermath of the tsunami, by Dr. S.J. Singh, published by Oliver Lehmann, Czernin Verlag, Vienna, 2005, ISBN 3-7076-0078-5 (for reviews and details see Review).
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Adkinson Hillary Rasheed Yussuf (Prince Rasheed) Mercy Thomas (Ms) Dr. Simron Jit Singh Joseph Portifer Francis Thomas Tong Kumar George Weber |
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