In 1953, Indian politicians Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Burma’s U Nu visited Manipur, delighted by displays of tribal custom. Local people, though, weren’t the kind to be bought off my baubles. They wanted political rights—and Nehru didn’t have a deal to bring to the table. Things went downhill—and the killings of 2023 tore the communities apart.
‘PM Modi’s Manipur visit, two years after ethnic clashes erupted, is too little, too late’
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