pushpita das (institute of defence studies and analyses)summarywhile the high court’s directive to the manipur government to submit its recommendation on the inclusion of the meitei community in the scheduled tribe list was the immediate trigger for
Hill tribes in Manipur are opposed to Meitei getting ST status, saying they are an “advanced community”. But Meiteis say needed to “preserve” their community and save their “ancestral land, tradition, culture and language”