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The first Manipuri-language film, Matamgi Manipur, was released on 9 April 1972. [58] Paokhum Ama (1983) is the first full-length colour feature film (according to the Academy's definition of a feature film) [59] of Manipur and was directed by Aribam Syam Sharma. Lammei (2002) is the first Manipuri Video film to have a commercial screening at a ...
Manipur has a long record of insurgency and inter-ethnic violence. [ 82 ] [ 83 ] Its first armed opposition group, the United National Liberation Front (UNLF), was founded in 1964 aiming to achieve independence from India and establish Manipur as a new country.
Scheduled Tribes of Manipur (1 C, 30 P) Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Manipur" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
A state of 3.2 million people, Manipur has been divided into two ethnic enclaves since the conflict began in May 2023 - a valley controlled by the Meiteis and the Kuki-dominated hills. The areas ...
Meitei people (also known as the Manipuris) are the predominant ethnic group of Manipur. Their native language is the Meitei language (officially known as Manipuri language ), serving as the lingua franca as well as the sole official language of Manipur, among the different ethnic groups, including the Kuki, Naga, and Pangal peoples, who speak ...
Approximate extent of the area traditionally inhabited by the Kuki people. The Kuki people, or Kuki-Zo people, [2] are an ethnic group in the Northeastern Indian states of Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram, [3] as well as the neighbouring countries of Bangladesh and Myanmar. [4]
India's north-eastern state of Manipur is on high alert after authorities recovered the bodies of six women and children, who reportedly belonged to the majority Meitei community. Meitei groups ...
Though there were earlier Brahmin settlements in Medieval Manipur, the entire Meitei ethnicity remains to be ethno-religious to Sanamahism until the great historical event of the Puya Mei Thaba took place during the reign of Pamheiba, the then Emperor of Manipur Kingdom, after which the entire kingdom was declared Hindu .