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[[File:Andamanese languages-map.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Territory of the Kari (Aka-Cari) and other Andamanese peoples in the late 19th century (map widedened for clarity).]]<br />
The '''Kari''', '''Cari''', or '''Chariar''' were one of the ten indigenous [[Great Andamanese people]]s, originally living on the northernmost part of [[North Andaman Island]] and on [[Landfall Island]] in the [[Indian Ocean]].<br />
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The Cari spoke a distinctive language, [[Aka-Cari language|Aka-Cari]], closely related to the other [[Great Andamanese languages]]. They were exclusively shore-dwellers (''aryoto'').<ref name="weber8">George Weber (~2009), ''[http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter8/text8.htm The Tribes] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507061710/http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter8/text8.htm |date=May 7, 2013 }}''. Chapter 8 in ''[http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/text-group-BodyChapters.htm The Andamanese] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724070402/http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/text-group-BodyChapters.htm |date=July 24, 2013 }}''. Accessed on 2012-07-12.</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
The Cari population at the time of first European contacts (in the 1790s) has been estimated at 100 individuals, out of perhaps 3500 Great Andamanese.<ref name="weber7">George Weber (~2009), ''[http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter7/text7.htm Numbers] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531230544/http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter7/text7.htm |date=May 31, 2012 }}''. Chapter 7 in ''[http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/text-group-BodyChapters.htm The Andamanese] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724070402/http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/text-group-BodyChapters.htm |date=July 24, 2013 }}''. Accessed on 2012-07-12.</ref><br />
Like other [[Andamanese people]]s, the Cari were decimated during colonial and post-colonial times, by diseases, [[alcohol (drug)|alcohol]], colonial warfare and loss of territory. The population was down to 39 individuals in the 1901 census, falling to 36 in 1911, 17 in 1921, and 9 in 1931.<ref name="gob"/><br />
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In 1949 any remaining Cari were relocated, together with all other surviving Great Andamanese, to a reservation on [[Bluff Island (Andaman)|Bluff island]]; and then again in 1969 to a reservation on [[Strait Island]].<ref name="mann">Rann Singh Mann (2005), [https://books.google.com/books?id=FPX6wiuZ3ikC&pg=PA149 Andaman and Nicobar Tribes Restudied: Encounters and Concerns], page 149. Mittal Publications. {{ISBN|81-8324-010-0}}</ref><br />
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By 1994, the population was reduced to only two women, aged 57 and 59, and therefore was on its way to extinction.<ref name="gob">A. N. Sharma (2003), ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=WEztW7c0CqQC&pg=PA62 Tribal Development in the Andaman Islands]'', page 62. Sarup & Sons, New Delhi.</ref> They are a designated [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes|Scheduled Tribe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://censusindia.gov.in/Tables_Published/SCST/ST%20Lists.pdf |page=27 |title=List of notified Scheduled Tribes |publisher=Census India |accessdate=15 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107225208/http://censusindia.gov.in/Tables_Published/SCST/ST%20Lists.pdf |archivedate=7 November 2013 }}</ref><br />
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