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Contents 1 Problems facing Manipur 2 Burmese Refugees 3 name of Manipur 4 Name 5 Lionizing Militants 6 Fair use rationale for Image:ManipurSeal.gif

[edit] Problems facing Manipur

I have doubts about the factual accuracy of the ==Problems facing Manipur== section. --Hemanshu 20:02, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I have grave doubts about that section's neutrality. I am going to remove the assertion that Manipur is the most corrupt state in India. Shorne 03:35, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hemanshu, please specify the parts that you feel are not factual -- Mutum

This section in particular needs edits, of language, precision (e.g. "a few years back" is not reliable Wiki language - what years?), and past/present tense issues, also some POV and colorful prose which need to be made consistent with other Wikipedia tone. I'm happy to help, but I don't know the facts - contact me if you want to collaborate on edits. Bruxism 03:50, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

The section titled "Problems Facing Manipur" is still not neutral. The tone of the piece demonstrates a clear leaning, and poetic language and anecdotes do not belong in Wikipedia -Camilo

[edit] Burmese Refugees

How come there is no mention about the Burmese Refugee problem in Manipur. I donot know exactly but i guess there are more than ten thousand Burmese Refugees in Manipur, now. -dinesh

Title does not give any relevant accounts of Poireiton. Poireiton was one of the renown historical figure who migrated to Manipur in the early part of the 1st century. He migrated from Khamnung Sawa, a place near the southern part of Yunan Province of present China. The place also mention in the manuscript of Poireiton Khunthokpa as Leikha, in the geneologyn of Poireiton it is mentioned as Leikha. The place Leikha can be found in the old map of Burma as southern Leikai and Northern Leikai.According to the SageiSalairon Puya or Manuscript another name of Poireiton is Tangkhongtek

[edit] name of Manipur

Manipur is a new name given to the present state during the time of King Garibniwaz (1709 to 1749)when Hindu religion became the state religion. Before this name was given the land was known with different names according to the reigning Kings of this land. The land was known as Poirei Meitei Leipak(meitei=Mei=man, tei=Tai=Tai community) (Poi=the Poi ethnic people, Lei=land)or Meitei Poirei Leipak , Kangleipak (Kang=dry, leipak=land), Poirei Namthak Sarokpung (nam=water, thak=above,sarok=hunting ground, pung=hill). The Burnese called Manipur as Kathe or Cathe, to Tai people of Kabo Valley as Cassay, to Ahom as mekale or Mogle(=mounglei, Moung=country in Tai words), Kabui tribe of Manipur called Meitei as Taimei, Kukichin cvalled meitei or Meitai.On the other hand Meitei or Manipuri called Assam as Tek-khao,Tripura as Takhel or Thoungnang, Burmese as Ava or Khamaran, Yunan province as Khage ie Kha-khe (khe means Yunan in Tai words or Maung Khe), KaboValley peoples were known as Senbi Kabo.

Here the question arises, from the Poirei Meitei Leipak, this means the land of Meitei and Poi people or the land of Tai and Poi people. Poi peoples belongs to the group of people migrated with Poireiton or Tangkhongtek(this word Tangkhongtek has close affinity with the forefathers name of Lapchas of Sikkim). Poireiton migrated to this land before the ascend of the first historical King Nongdalai Pakhangba(Nong = heaven or Sky or high place, Da=descende,Lai= God or King or the Lai ancestoral people, Pa=pha=god or father,Khangba=recognised)at Kangla of Manipur in 33AD.He was the First Historical Tai king. Before him the Kha-ba ethnic groups were the ruling family of Kangla. Kha-ba or Kha means non Tai according to Tai langauge.

Before the comming of Poireiton to Manipur, the valley of Manipur was divided in different principalities, namely Kha-ba, Ngan-ba, A-ngom, Moirang, there was a conflict between the Khaba Nganba and Angom, the Angom massacred the two princepality

[edit] Name

Why is the name of the state written in Bengali and Hindi, when neither of these are official languages of Manipur? --SameerKhan 09:13, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

• Script is different from language. Bengali script is used to write Manipuri and Assamese language. Similarly, Devanagari is used to write Hindi, Gujarati etc. --Tabish q 15:09, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lionizing Militants

"We are fighting for Manipur,"Sovereign, independent Manipur. You see, Manipur was never part of India." says a freedom fighter of UNLF.[8]

Delete this unnecessary quotation. Of the many militant organizations, why quote UNLF as if you are endorsing its position? This amounts to lionizing the extortionist militants of Manipur. Please delete it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.117.230.193 (talk) 14:34, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:ManipurSeal.gif

Image:ManipurSeal.gif is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:25, 5 December 2007 (UTC)