ABSTRACT
The chapter entitled‘Conclusion: The vulnerable Andaman and Nicobar Islands’weaves together the saga of disasters and vulnerability faced by the A&N Islands. It assesses the similarities and the differences of the three disasters experienced by the A&N Islands. The three disasters, namely the epidemics of syphilis, the World War II and the Tsunami of 26 December 2004, were different from each other, in terms of time period, number of people killed, damage type and spatial distribution, yet the common strand was their vulnerability. The duration of each of these disasters varied. The research shows that while physical and infrastructure damage was widespread in World War II and the Tsunami, it was not the case with the epidemics, even though the forest resource of the tribal Andamanese was destroyed by the expanding colonial settlement. There is a variation in impact of spatial pattern of disasters. The impact of the disasters was spatially concentrated in few islands only. This concentration reflects the vulnerability of A&N Islands to different disasters at a different point in time.
