By RK Rishikesh Sinha 1908: TC Hudson in his book “The Meitheis” published in 1908 sowed the seed that the Manipuri Meiteis has recently been converted to Hinduism. (Meiteis is a jati and the culture is “Manipuri”. The same culture is shared by another Hindu jati Bishnupriya). Two jatis with two different languages share the same culture. Majority of the people find it a problem, but it is a beauty. 1919: Rabindra Nath Tagore is shown Manipuri Raas Leela in today’s Bangladesh in one of the Bishnupriya jati village. Tagore institutionalize the Raas. 1930: Intellectual Sepoys writes N Phullo in Assam started questioning Hinduism amongst Hindu Meiteis. Manipur’s Maharaja however doesn’t find any objection about his activity. N Phullo said, he is not against Hinduism but he performs “ worship by using Manipuri language ”. The followers of Phullo started calling themselves as “Apokpa Marup”. The God Apokpa fits in Hindu cosmology. 1940: The message reaches Man
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