The dawn of cricket in Manipur

S Lokeshwar Singh Maharaja Sir Churachand Singh, KCSI, CBE, picked up among others, a variety of modern games while he was studying at the Mayo College, Ajmer from 1895 to 1901 and later up to 1907 at the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College (now called the Rastriya Military College), Dehradun. It may be […]

S Lokeshwar Singh Maharaja Sir Churachand Singh, KCSI, CBE, picked up among others, a variety of modern games while he was studying at the Mayo College, Ajmer from 1895 to 1901 and later up to 1907 at the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College (now called the Rastriya Military College), Dehradun. It may be […]

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A corner of England pays tributes to 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 […]

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/