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POINTS TO

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Dr MOHENDRA IRENGBAMB Sc MBBS MD MRCGP (London)


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CONTENTS

CHAPTERS:

MEITEIS & MANIPURGOD & RELIGION

SCIENCE & PHILOSOPHYHISTORICAL EVENTS


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Chapter 1MEITEIS & MANIPUR

1 A Short Introduction to Manipuri culture2 From P.O. Imphal to Imphal3 A Meiteis dream4 When modern civilisation came to Manipur5 The origin of the Meiteis of Manipur6 Who knows the origin of the Meiteis7 How did the Meiteis come from Africa8 How did the Khasis like the Meiteis come from Africa9 Who said Meiteilon is Tibeto-Burman?

10 The origin of the Meitei language11 How was Kangleipak (Manipur) raised from the bottom of the sea12 How did the African apes come to have Meitei features13 Why do the Meiteis have less body hair14 When did the Meiteis begin to wear clothes15 The Great Meitei nation16 Meitei national character

17 The baffling problem of a plebiscite in Manipur18 The Rite of passage for every Manipuri child to Hindi19 Calling time on the most unsafe state in Manipur20 Whither goes Meitei insurgency21 Are the Meitei getting a short shrift from their tribal brothers22 Beating the chinky blues23 Why there will beManipur for ever - undivided24 Democracy in Britain vis--vis inManipur25 Further evidence that the Meiteis are the original inhabitants of Manipur26 The Meiteis should be ready to weather tribal tempest

27 Objective Burma The Seven YearsDevastation28 Manipur the exact origin of modern polo.29 How to bargain from a position of power30 Human exodus from Africa to Tibet authenticated Final31 Energy conservation & immoral electricity in Manipur32 The birth of Meitei ethnonationalism33 Peaceful coexistence in Manipur34 Obfuscation of Sadar hill entanglement35 Meitei ancestor worship

36 Manipur with uncertain boundaries37 In Retrospect: The political affairs of Manipur38 Manipuri British write a biography


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Chapter 2GOD & RELIGION1 Krishna & Christ, Hindu & Christian saviors2 Easter- a festival for Christians, Hindus and Sanamahis3 Who said prayer is not a waste of time4 A futile journey of a Meitei to find God5 How I found and lost God

6 Who is God, Does God exist7 Can we live in a world without God8 Where do we come from, why we are here9 The End of my search for God

10 Why I am not a believer11 How I became a freethinker12 Why educated people believe less in God13 Prove Christ existed14 Cardinal Newman towards sainthood15 Secular Britain gives Pagans in jail, holidays to celebrate their festivals read>16 The Turin Shroud17 Were the Pakistani floods caused by God?18 Hinduism19 Buddhism20 Christianity22 Judaism23 Taoism and Zen Philosophy

24 Fringe religion - Church of scientology25 My last tango with God.


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Chapter 3SCIENCE & PHILOSOPHY1 Did God create human beings2 Did God create the universe3 The origin of life4 What is life5 What is old age6 What is death (Dignitas)7 What is afterlife8 What is mind9 What is morality

10 What is consciousness11 What is reality12 What is love13 What is coincidence

14 Senior moments15 The baffling mirror puzzle16 Wise old Socrates17 How does grandma help in human evolution18 How does one see and hear someone in a split second19 The God Particle and God20 Cloned beef has entered the British food chain21 Do the moths commit suicide?22 Self-illuminating Christmas trees

23 Complex human relationships with bacteria24 A new human cousin discovered25 Einsteins general theory of relativity26 Elementary quantum mechanics27 How was the earth formed28 The real search for life on Mars begins29 Why water is vital for life

30 Plate tectonics and how the continents and oceans were formed?


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Chapter 4HISTORICAL EVENTS1 The Chittagong Armoury Raid2 Columbus did not discover America3 On the cowboy trail in Apache country

4 The ruins of Pompeii5 Fontana de Trevi in Rome6 The Niagara Falls from the Canada Side7 If you are going to San Francisco8 The sinking city of Venice9 Taj Mahal, the Islamic paradise

10 The famous smile of Mona Lisa11 Auld Lang Syne12 Friday the 13th

13 Why Law is an Ass, more so in the UK and USA14 Nine hours from Krishna15 The international criminal court in Hague

16 Ancient India & a treatise on the ancient medicine of India


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EMERITUS PROFESSOR JAMES MATISOFF


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TIBETOBURMAN GROUPS OF LANGUAGES

An old schematic diagram of the Sino-Tibetan language family is given below:

Schematic diagram of Sino-Tibetan


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Tibeto-BurmanTibeto-Burman is then divided into several branches, some of them geographic conveniences

rather than linguistic proposals:Kamarupan (geographic)

Kuki-ChinNaga (geographic)AborMiriDaflaBodoGaro

Himalayish (geographic)Maha-Kiranti (includes Nepal Bhasa, Magar, Rai)

Tibeto-Kanauri (includes Lepcha)QiangicJingphoNungishLuish

JingphoNungishLuish

LoloBurmeseNaxiKarenicBaicTujia (unclassified)Matisoff makes no claim that the families in the Kamarupan or Himalayish branches have a

special relationship to one another other than a geographic one. They are intendedrather as categories of convenience pending more detailed comparative work.

Matisoff also notes that JingphoNungishLuish is central to the family in that in containsfeatures of many of the other branches, and is also located around the center of the

Tibeto-Burman-speaking area.

MATISOFFS CLASSIFICATION 1978


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OLD MEITEILON - MEITHEI

Sohini Ray (Harvard University): Introduction toThe Grammar of the Meithei by Sobhana Chelliah.

Meithei is atypical of the Kamrupan group in

some significant ways. It lacks pronominal marking of the verb, which is

considered an original Tibeto-Burman trait; it alsolacks numerical classifiers [Richard Bauman1975; Scott DeLancey 1989b].

Unlike a Tibeto-Burman language it lacks tensemorphology.


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Shobhana Chelliah, since her Ph D dissertation in Meithei(Meiteilon) in 1992at StStephens College in Delhi, was interestedin the endangered language Meithei, which is far from beingendangered now. She is now studying such an endangered

language called Lamkan in Manipur. She is a linguist professor at the Texas University at Denton,

Texas. She is currently Associate Editor of the journal HimalayanLinguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area

Her book The Grammar of Meitheis is well receivedby thelinguistic fraternity but no by all. (price Rs 22,500)

She now agrees that Meitelon can not be classified as a Tibeto-Burman language until further research.

She is the only the top linguist of the world who has done a lot of

fieldwork in Manipur.


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Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:44:: 06 + 0000[26/01/201313:44 26/01/2013 13:44 UTC]

From: Chelliah, [email protected] To: [email protected]@onetel.com Subject: RE: Header: Show All Headers Greetings Dr. Mohendra Thank you for your letter. I was not aware about your book

talking about the origin of Manipuri (what do you think the

name of the language should be Manipuri, Meiteilon?) Iwould be very happy to read your articles and I will do so.Work on the position of Manipuri as Tibeto-Burmanor another language should be done, I agree withyou on that. It would be a good PhD. Topic. Let melook further at your articles and write back.

I am currently in India and unable to access emailregularly. My replies may be delayed.

Best, Shobhana


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Matisoffs preview of Chelliahs The Grammar of Meitheis

The Meithei language, far from being endangered, is widely usedas a lingua franca by other Tibeto-Burman people.

Meithei has been under heavy influence from Indo-Aryanlanguages, which manifest itself in its phonology, lexicon, and its

grammar.


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