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Lakshadweep
Beach on Bangaram Island, Lakshadweep.
With the exception of the people of Minicoy, who share cultural affinities with the Maldive Islands, most of the population of Lakshadweep are descendants of migrants from the Malabar Coast of southwest India. These migrants arrived in the islands sometime before the 7th century CE.1