Mayor Richard Quantrell recalled the history when 2,000 men from Manipur were recruited in May 1917 to be deployed in France. Many died on the way to Italy and later in France; graves have been discovered in France, Italy, Egypt and Yemen. A century after the controversial ICS officer John Comyn Higgins raised the Manipur Labour Corps […]
Mayor Richard Quantrell recalled the history when 2,000 men from Manipur were recruited in May 1917 to be deployed in France. Many died on the way to Italy and later in France; graves have been discovered in France, Italy, Egypt and Yemen. A century after the controversial ICS officer John Comyn Higgins raised the Manipur Labour Corps […]
Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2017/05/a-corner-of-england-pays-tributes-to-manipur-labour-corps/
Prof Lal Dena The Anglo-Kuki War, 1917-1820 was an epoch-making event not only of the history of Manipur but also of modern Indian history. Recently it has become a subject of serious research among academicians and scholars of different disciplines. But what has been so far sidetracked is its national and international character. The very […]
Prof Lal Dena The Anglo-Kuki War, 1917-1820 was an epoch-making event not only of the history of Manipur but also of modern Indian history. Recently it has become a subject of serious research among academicians and scholars of different disciplines. But what has been so far sidetracked is its national and international character. The very […]
Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2017/01/reinterpreting-the-anglo-kuki-war-1917-1920/
