International Journal of Research (IJR) Vol-1, Issue-8, September2014 ISSN 2348-6848 Socio-Cultural And Religious Facets Of Manipuri Muslims During The 17 th And 18 th Centuries Md. Chingiz Khan Research Scholar in the Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
[email protected] Abstract: Islamic World), dresses (phanek, khudei, khwangnum), belief system, language The state, Manipur, extending between (meiteilon), food habits (uti, eronba, latitudes 23 50 and 25 4 north and chamthong/kangsoi, ngari, singju), arts longitudes 93 2 and 94 47 east and and aesthetics, games and sports, etc. and acquiring an area of 22,356sq.km, is sited their implications on the expansion, as the easternmost border of India which settlement and formation of the community has a lucid geographical unit comprising have been scrutinized here during the 17 th of hills and valleys. It is a land populated and 18 th centuries. It does not mean that and lodged by the hill and valley they were through and through integrated inhabitants together since eternity. into the Meitei society. They maintained a Veritably, one cannot subsist without the unique distinct identity of their own, other, the hill is nothing without the valley though they fished out many concepts, and so is the valley without the hills. It has thoughts and ideologies for shaping and neighbouring states, namely, Nagaland on reshaping of their own community from the north, Myanmar on the east, Cachar the nearby communities. Further, another (Assam) on the west and Chin hills of attempt has been made to canvass the Myanmar and Mizoram on the south.