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Chronicles of other nations mention that trade networks between India proper and South China were likely operating via Manipur; pilgrims are reported to have entered India from China via these territories. [27] The geopolitical history of the region along with the ethno-linguistic background of the inhabitants are largely unknown. [28] [29] [30]
The ancient Meitei temple of Lord Pakhangba restored in 2007 inside the Kangla Palace, Manipur. Meitei architecture, sometimes also referred to as Manipuri architecture, is the architecture produced by the Meitei speaking people, whose culture flourished in the Kangleipak kingdom and its neighbouring kingdoms from the middle of the fifteenth century BC.
The territory of this realm is mountainous and thereby, ancient Kangleipak consists of several smaller region each with its own dialect, cultural peculiarities, and identity. [4] [6] At one time during the reign of Meidingu Khagemba the territory of Kangleipak(Manipur) stretched upto the present Yunan Province of modern day China. [7]
The Kangla with diacritic Kanglā, [1] officially known as the Kangla Fort, [2] is an old fortified palace at Imphal, in the Manipur state of India. [3] [4] [5] It was formerly situated on both sides (western and eastern) of the bank of the Imphal River, now remaining only on the western side in ruined conditions.
The prehistory of Manipur is the period of human history between the first use of stone tools by early men and the time just preceding ancient Kangleipak. Comparing with other regions of the world, the development process of the archaeological work in Manipur is of recent times. [ 1 ]
The Manung Kangjeibung [a] (Old Manipuri: Manung Kangcheipung) (Manung Kangjeibung (Meitei for 'Inner Pologround')) is an old polo field located to the south west of the citadel inside the Kangla Fort in Imphal West district of Manipur. In ancient times, only royalties and nobilities were allowed to play the game of polo (Meitei: Sagol Kangjei ...
The Manipur State Museum (Meitei: Manipur Pukei Lankei Shanglen) is an institution displaying a collection of artistic, cultural, historical and scientific artefacts and relics in Imphal, Manipur, India. It has galleries housing materials of natural history, ethnology and archeology.
The ancient flag of Kangleipak (Manipur), with the seven colours depicting the seven clan dynasties. Nongda Lairen Pakhangba initiated the process of unification of the warring ethnic groups and principalities groups, which led to the formation of Manipur realm, under the political supremacy of the Ningthouja dynasty in the first century AD.