Loi
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Loi redirects here. For other meanings, see LOI (disambiguation).
Loi is the word in Meitei language (Meiteilon) for the term "scheduled caste". The term "Loi" is given to the Meitei villages of Manipur in northeast India, who refused to adopt Hinduism when the newly converted Manipuri King ordered all his subject to adopt the religion.
There are 73 Loi villages in Manipur, only 8 of them have come under presidential provision of schedule caste reservation of the Indian Constituition.
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