MEITEI NATIONAL CHARACTER – Part 4
MEITEI KANGLUPKI LAMCHAT. MEITEI NARCISSISM
As I mentioned earlier one of the main purposes of the burst of writing on Meitei national...
METEI NATIONAL CHARACTER – 3
Metei kanglupki Lamchat
The concept of “national character” was a subject of debate during 18th century Europe. Interest in national character developed among Enlightenment thinkers...
MEITEI NATIONAL CHARACTER – Part 2
Meitei Kanglupki Lamchat
By: Dr Irengbam Mohendra Singh
In...
MEITEI NATIONAL CHARACTER – Part 1
MEITEI KANGLUPKI LAMCHAT
By: Dr Irengbam Mohendra Singh
Máana kari khangdana, Máana eingondagi kari hendana; Hekta phujilaga loirê
The Meitei national character, which is exemplified...
Calling Time on the most unsafe state in India – Part 3
CAUSES OF ETHNIC CONFLICT IN MANIPUR & SUGESTED REMEDIES
By: Dr Irengbam Mohendra Singh
Ethnic conflicts in Manipur are not phenomenal only for Manipur. They are...
Calling time on the most unsafe state in India – Part 2
MANIPUR ON A SWISS MODEL
Political legitimacy is indeed central to the sustenance of Manipuri identity. The existence of secessionist movements reflects a lack of...
Calling time on the most unsafe state in India – Part 1
Chingna koina pan saba Haona koina pan ngakpa;
Manipur sana leibakna Matau asumna pallami,
Maong asumna leirami.
Friends, Manipuris and countrymen; I’ve come to bury ethnic-strife,...
THE GREAT MEITEI NATION – II
MEITEIS WILL SURVIVE ECONOMICALLY WITHOUT THE HILLS
Having encapsulated the origin of the Meiteis in my preceding article this paper looks at how the primitive...
THE GREAT MEITEI NATION – PART 1
By: Dr Irengbam Mohendra Singh
Emperor Constantine of Rome who brought Christianity to the Empire proclaimed majestically standing atop… that “Under God’s watch, we shall...
Who said the Meitei lon is Tibeto-Burman? Dr GRIERSON, but he was wrong
By: Dr. Irengbam Mohendra Singh
Who’s this Dr Grierson?
George Abraham Grierson, an Irish linguist from Dublin, was an official of the Indian Civil Service. He...
HOW DID THE MEITEIS COME FROM AFRICA? By decoding the human Genome
By: Dr Irengbam Mohendra Singh
The title may be shocking. Perhaps my choice of title bespeaks an unattractive scepticism.
But isn’t all scientific discoveries that were...
Who knows the origin of the Meiteis?- NO BODY
By: Dr Irengbam Mohendra Singh
Nobody knows where the Meiteis came from. Some Europeans (Pemberton et al) skewed this idea that the Meiteis probably migrated...
The Origin of Manipur
By: Dr Irengbam Mohendra Singh
The empirical demands of history, much worse, prehistory, when it is allowed to assert them by its practitioners, drawing...