INTRODUCTION
In the dehumanising colonial doctrine of “terra nullius”, the ruling dispensation seems to have found a new sadistic pleasure for aggressive “territorial imagination” by asserting that the “Hill Areas” of Manipur are a “No man’s land”.
“Land”, however, is sacred to the tribals. In the traditional belief system of their...
THE FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT (FA) of August 3, 2015, represents a watershed moment in Naga political history, superseding all previous accords. This landmark achievement has the potential to secure Naga political rights through political, diplomatic, and democratic processes. The FA was not a mere coincidence; it was the result of...
The recent Shirui peak fire has raised an alarm for several groups of people. It ended only after humanintervention and luckily with changing weather conditions on the third day. It lies 5,680-8,500 ft above the sea level and home to the endangered Shirui Lily (Lilium mackliniae), the Manipur state...
DURING THE LOCKDOWN in 2020 due to the global pandemic, the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, England, undertook a major reform. They decided to overhaul insensitive displays that highlighted the violent history of colonialism and imperialism. The Pitt Rivers Museum recognised that their collections have propagated harmful colonial stereotypes...
MANY INTERESTING academic salvos have been fired to and fro on the context of why the Meitei community may not have been included in the list of SC/ST under Orders of 1950/1951/1956. While discussing this matter it is crucial that the context is not lost in the details. I...
For us, the land and people are inseparable, if one is affected the other is affected also. Beneath the earth lies the bones of my grandfathers and great great grandfathers, above the sky lives the spirit of my great great ancestors! We as people, live in the space between,...
Is the proposal to redraw district boundaries for administrative convenience a hegemonic design to encroach on tribal lands in “Hill Areas” in violation of Article 371-C and expand the land of valley districts? Article 371-C has given the area coverage of “Hill Areas” of Manipur and it therefore prevents...
THE IDEA for a special administrative zone for Moreh alone is specious; focus on the whole state returning to normalcy not just an isolated pocket.
A proposition under the title “From cosmopolitan hub to fractured community: The fight for Moreh’s soul” was made in The Sangai Express in its January...
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In the anticipation that full-fledged statehood will be accorded to Manipur on 21st January, 1972, the Parliament passed the 27th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1971 extending a Constitutional protection for the Scheduled tribes of the Hill Areas. The protection it accords has been in consonant with the protection already accorded...