MANIPUR IS BURNING: WHY HAS THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA TURNED DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND TO THE PEOPLE ?
North-east India was a historically independent sovereign land and later it was strategically added to mainland India by a treaty called Yandabo Treaty in 1826, signed between the British and the Burmese without any consent of the Ahom kingdom, Kachari kingdom, or the other territories ruling the region. As a result, the sovereign region was politically firmly added to mainland British India and various parts of the entire region, with its new identity as North-east India, politically lost their sovereignty and identity forever. I n 1947, there were only 3 states in this region- Assam, and the two ‘princely states’ of Manipur and Tripura . At present, North-east India is divided into eight states- Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim. Manipur remained a 'Princely State' from 1891 till 1949. The cause is not clear, but the region seems to be treated as primarily ‘Vote Banks’ and as 'not-so-important' citizens by the Cent...
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