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Manipur became a princely state under British rule in 1891 after the Anglo-Manipur war, the last of the independent states to be incorporated into British Raj as a princely state. [6] During the Second World War , Manipur was the scene of battles between Japanese and Allied forces.
The following year, the British appointed Captain George Gordon, the commander of the Manipur Levy, as a full-time Political Agent in Manipur. [5] In 1844, Chandrakirti went into exile with Nara Singh being made king. Nara Singh's rule lasted till 1850, when Chandrakirti returned and assumed the throne.
The draft of the standstill agreement was formulated soon after 3 June 1947 by the Political department of the British Indian government.The agreement provided that all the administrative arrangements of 'common concern' then existing between the British Crown and any particular signatory state would continue unaltered between the signatory dominion (India or Pakistan) and the state until new ...
With the withdrawal of the British from the Indian subcontinent, in 1947, the Indian Independence Act provided that the hundreds of princely states which had existed alongside but outside British India were released from all their subsidiary alliances and other treaty obligations to the British, while at the same time the British withdrew from their treaty obligations to defend the states and ...
Meckley or Manipur kingdom in Mathew Carey's Map of Hindostan or India of 1814. Kangla Uttra Sanglen at the Kangla Fort, former residence of the Meitei kings of Manipur. The two statues of Kangla Sha (Meitei dragon lions) standing in front of the inner gate were destroyed after the Anglo-Manipur War of 1891 but have been restored by the Manipur Government in recent years.
Several Naga groups of Manipur opposed the term "Anglo Kuki War", [5] [6] holding that the conflict between the British and the Kukis was a "rebellion" as mentioned in British records, rather than a war. [6] They requested the Government of Manipur to stop the commemoration events of the "Anglo-Kuki War". [7]
Jadonang was convicted and hanged by the British for killing a few Manipur merchants. Persuaded by Jadonang's ideology and principles, Gaidinliu became his disciple and a part of the movement against the British. In three years, by the age of 16, she was also accused of creating communal unrest against Kukis and the British wanted to arrest her.
The Anglo-Manipur War [6] or Manipuri Rebellion of 1891 [7] [8] [9] was a short armed conflict between the British Colonial Forces and the dissenting royal princes of Manipur Kingdom, which was arguably a dependency of the British Empire in India.