Manipur Memorial Centre in Port Blair urged
Source: The Sangai Express / Courtesy Andaman Chronicle
Port Blair, October 19 2017:
Bishnu Pada Ray, Member of Parliament, A & N Islands alongwith Yumnam Tomba Singh, president of Preservation Committee of Deported Manipuri War Heroes in Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Khagen Soren, organization secretary, Vanvashi Kalyan Aashram Port Blair met the Lt Governor at Raj Niwas on October 16 and submitted a demand for allotment of 1 acre of land in Port Blair for construction of a Memorial Centre in memory of the "Heroes of Anglo Manipuri war of 1891" .
The first Meiteis/Manipuris who were exiled to Kalapani were Meidingu (Meitei prince), Sana Chahi Ahum alias Ranjit (Horoscope name) alias Prince Narendrajit .
Maharaja Kulachandra, his brothers and 12 noblemen instead of hanging were to be sent to Kalapani for life imprisonment after confiscating all their wealth by the British Government on November 23, 1891 from Calcutta on board the ship SS Shahjahan .
Late Maharaj Kullachandra Dhwaja Singh and Major Chongtha Miya Singh were allowed to return to mainland and no information about the thirteen remaining prisoners could be found.