{"id":300587,"date":"2017-08-05T17:55:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/?p=117244"},"modified":"2017-08-05T17:55:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:55:25","slug":"meiteis-meiteilon-never-been-tibeto-burman-never-mind-the-guess-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2017\/08\/05\/meiteis-meiteilon-never-been-tibeto-burman-never-mind-the-guess-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Meiteis &amp; Meiteilon never been Tibeto-Burman : Never mind the guess work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The joy of Independence Day permeated all over Manipur on August 14 1947. I was there. But, Manipur had an Achilles Heel, the Manipur State Congress. Another fatal weakness for the superficial was the inherent silliness of the premise that Meiteis and Meiteilon are Tibeto-Burman.<br \/>\nThe aesthetic offence of the 1950\u2019s educational revolution, seduced by Grierson, was to dupe young Meiteis into believing something that is not true.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/meiteis-meiteilon-never-tibeto-burman-never-mind-guess-work\/\">Meiteis &amp; Meiteilon never been Tibeto-Burman : Never mind the guess work<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/\">The Sangai Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/meiteis-meiteilon-never-tibeto-burman-never-mind-guess-work\/\">http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/meiteis-meiteilon-never-tibeto-burman-never-mind-guess-work\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The joy of Independence Day permeated all over Manipur on August 14 1947. I was there. But, Manipur had an Achilles Heel, the Manipur State Congress. Another fatal weakness for the superficial was the inherent silliness of the premise that Meiteis and Meiteilon are Tibeto-Burman.<br \/>\nThe aesthetic offence of the 1950&rsquo;s educational revolution, seduced by Grierson, was to dupe young Meiteis into believing something that is not true.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/meiteis-meiteilon-never-tibeto-burman-never-mind-guess-work\/\">Meiteis &amp; Meiteilon never been Tibeto-Burman : Never mind the guess work<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/\">The Sangai Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"sangaiexpress","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3942],"tags":[3985,186,3945],"class_list":["post-300587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-sangaiexpress","hentry","category-news","category-sangaiexpress","tag-diaspora-speak","tag-dr-irengbam-mohendra-singh","tag-sangaiexpress","post_format-sangaiexpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300589,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300587\/revisions\/300589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}