Manipur (Man) Asm: মণিপুৰ maṇipūra ‘Jewelled Land’ From Skt/Hin: mani, ‘jewel’, ‘gem’; and Skt/Hin: pur, ‘fort’, ‘city’. Local myths tell of the snake god Vasuki casting jewels across this land, filling it with natural beauty. King Gharib Nawaz (Mei: Meidingu...
(Asm): ইম্ফল imphala ‘Cluster of Houses’ -City/Capital/District, Manipur From Mei: yum, ‘house’; and Mei: phal, ‘together’. This implies a collection of houses or villages surrounding a royal enclosure at a time when most of them would be buried in a jungle of bamboo...
The ‘Seven Sisters’ are a family of seven states on the North Eastern Region (NER) of India: Arunachal Pradesh (ArP), Assam (Asm), Manipur (Man), Meghalaya (Meg), Mizoram (Miz), Nagaland (Nag), Tripura (Tri). Sikkim is usually included as a brother state....
