I AM WRITING to you regarding your recent article titled “Consequences due to existence of Hereditary Chieftainship in Manipur vis-a-vis ‘The Manipur Hill Areas (Acquisition of Chiefs’ Rights) Act, 1967”
I AM WRITING to you regarding your recent article titled “Consequences due to existence of Hereditary Chieftainship in Manipur vis-a-vis ‘The Manipur Hill Areas (Acquisition of Chiefs’ Rights) Act, 1967”
1. What is Hereditary Chieftainship? The institution of hereditary chieftainship is well described by W. W. Hunter in his book ‘A Statistical Account of Bengal Volume-VI’ as under: “The village