Manipur Profile

Manipur in northeast India is a small state with the state capital at Imphal.

The word Manipur literally means “a jeweled land” and the state was described as the “Jewel of India” by the late Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

The state is blessed with lush green beauty and is surrounded by blue hills with an oval shaped valley.

The state is the birth place of the game Polo and is also famous for its Manipuri dance the Ras Lila created by Rajashree Bhagyachandra.

Manipur is bounded by Nagaland in the North, Mizoram in the South, Assam in the west, and by the borders of the country Myanmar in the east.

The state attained full state hood on 21 January 1972.