An excerpt from "Manipur Past And Present"
- Perceptions and Worldview of Meitei Culture and Civilization -
A tribute to Prof Naorem Sanajoaba
As provided by Rakesh Khwairakpam *
MANIPUR
PAST AND PRESENT
Perceptions and Worldview of Meitei Culture and Civilization
The culture and civilization of the Meeteis and other ethnoses in the present state of Manipur, which dates back to two millennia
of political organization, is a continuum of the grand South East Asian civilization.
The civilization that had been constructed on the stone age and the following material culture of the autochthones in the
South-East Asian region, as a result of the Meeteia chievementisn history, among others, through the agesb elongst o all the original autochthonese, early settlers in the land of the Meeteis notwithstanding the fact that Meeteis remained the Heruenvolk-the mainstream of the cultural complex.
The achievements of the other early ethnoses than the Heryenvolk of the ancient Poirei Meiteileipak( Kangleipak)
known in the modern period as Manipur, are given adequate treatment in a subsequent volume of the book under the same title.
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* This article was provided by Khwairakpam Rakesh (Ph D Scholar at Tata Institute of Social Sciences ). The sender can be contacted at khulakpakh(at)gmail(dot)com
This article was webcasted on December 28, 2009.
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