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unusual facts about Chandel, Manipur



Aimol people

Aimol are a people in India, settled in different regions in different districts of Manipur and some in Assam and Nagaland.

Attari

The proposed route will enter India through Tamu and Moreh in Manipur bordering Myanmar, then enter Bangladesh through Mahisasan and Shabajpur and again enter India from Bangladesh at Gede.

Chandel district

Chandel town is the administrative headquarters of the district.

Ching-Thang Khomba

He is also credited with spreading Vaishnavism in Manipur after his grandfather Pamheiba made Hinduism the official religion and for creating a unified Manipur.

Churachandpur

Paite language which serves as the lingua franca for the different tribal communities in the District (MS. Prabharaka: "Ferment In Manipur" Frontline, January 7-20, 1989, p.38) is used as the Link Language in Southern Manipur's lone FM Station (AIR Churachandpur/Lamka).

Dance Films Association

It also arranges tours of dance films; in 2010 over forty venues were booked, from New York — the Museum of Modern Art — to Bialystok, Havana, Manipur and Istanbul.

Francis Pearson

He finished as Chief Minister of Manipur State from 1945 to 1947, and the village of Pearson in the Churachandpur district was named in his honour.

Gaderia

The Gaderia are divided into Eighty Four sub castes (GOTRAS) i.e. Kokande , Bamhaniya, Chandel, Dhingar, Haranwal, Kachhwaha, Sisodia, Nikhar, Phul Singhiya, Rathore, Sagar, Saraswar and Thambar, Foolsange, tejwal, Bania ,Mohaniya, Kumiya, Hans, Rautela, etc.

Gede railway station

The proposed route will enter India through Tamu and Moreh in Manipur bordering Myanmar, then enter Bangladesh through Mahisasan and Shabajpur and again enter India from Bangladesh at Gede.

Gharib Nawaz

Meidingu Pamheiba (1690–1751) an emperor in Manipur in the early 18th century.

Guite people

Making Vangteh as his political center, began extending Guite's dynastic rule to the south (tuitaw) and westward crossing the Manipur river, and also was well documented in the oral traditions of other tribes also.

Out of many political centers of the once Guite dynastic rule, Lamzang-Tedim (later shifted to Mualpi or Molpi until last camp at Hanship in present Churachandpur (Lamka) District of Manipur), Tuimui, Selbung, Haiciin, and Vangteh were the most prominent places.

Hauzel

The Hauzel are mostly concentrated in Lamka, the second largest town of Manipur state, India and many of them are living in Mizoram.

Henry Burney

From 1829 Burney was the British resident envoy to King Bagyidaw's court at Ava in Burma where he successfully negotiated the return of the Kabaw Valley from Manipur to Burma.

Indo-Burma barrier

The protests from people living in the Moreh, Chorokhunou, and Molchan areas forced the Home Ministry to refer the matter to the Manipur government.

Iraota rochana

The Scarce Silverstreak, Iraota rochana is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly with several subspecies found in (Manipur, Burma, Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Malaya, Langkawi, Thailand, Singapore, Sulawesi and the Philippines.

Ishing thingbi lake

Ishing Thingbi lake is a fresh water lake situated at Konaitong in the Chandel district of Manipur, India.

Kachari Kingdom

At the time of British annexation, the kingdom consisted of parts of Nagaon and Karbi Anglong; North Cachar, Cachar and the Jiri frontier of Manipur.

Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup

Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (or Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup) is a Meitei terrorist organization in the state of Manipur in India formed in January 1994 by the unification of splinter groups like Ibopishak faction of the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) along with United National Liberation Front (UNLF) led by Namoijam Oken and the People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) led by Meiraba.

Khuplam Milui Lenthang

Guided by the spirit of God they had come to Manipur for a third time to seek out the lost tribes of Israel in order to bring them back to the Promised Land.

Maha Ne Myo

The British had demanded no less than the complete dismemberment of the Burmese western territories in Arakan, Assam, Manipur and the Tenasserim coast as well as two million pounds sterling of indemnity.

Manipur Fulvetta

The Manipur Fulvetta or Streak-throated Fulvetta (Fulvetta manipurensis) is a bird species in the family Sylviidae.

Miletus chinensis

Miletus chinensis longeana (de Nicéville, 1898) (Manipur, Burma) —Long's Brownie

Naga people

The Naga tribes live in the Indian states of Nagaland, Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh and the northwestern hill tracts of Burma, such as the Naga Self-Administered Zone (formerly in Sagaing Division).

Nongmaithem Pahari

He was perhaps the most prolific Modern Manipuri singer before his death on 18 October 2006 in Imphal, Manipur, India.

Nongmaithem Pahari's greatest contribution to the culture of Manipur is the way he introduced or started a new era of music.

Suremphaa

The administration was looked after by Bakatial Gendhela Borbarua, renamed Kirti Chandra Borbarua after the Manipur expedition (see below).

Thadou people

Christianity among the Thadous can traced back to an Anglican named William Pettigrew who worked in Manipur as a missionary from 1894.

Treaty of Yandabo

According to the treaty, the Burmese agreed to (1) cede to the British Assam, Manipur, Rakhine (Arakan), and Taninthayi (Tenasserim) coast south of Salween river, (2) cease all interference in Cachar and Jaintia, (3) pay an indemnity of one million pounds sterling in four installments, (4) allow for an exchange of diplomatic representatives between Ava and Calcutta, and (5) sign a commercial treaty in due course.

UNLF

United National Liberation Front, an insurgent group in the state of Manipur in the north-east of India


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