#Article: The central argument we put forward for those ‘hate mongers’ and the public is that the Kukis of Manipur are indigenous peoples of the state and not refugees or #foreigners, as we are made to believe. There are ample historical and archaeological evidences to indicate the #Kukis lived in their current area and state since time immemorial. As imagined by some groups, they did not enter Manipur (the present #colonialboundary of Manipur); the annexation of the northern part of their ancestral domain, the southern mountains of #Manipur (roughly present #Pherzawl, #Churachandpur, #Chandel and #Tengnoupal districts), into Manipur (Kangla) kingdom in the 19th century make them to be part of Manipur’s ‘subjects’. Unlike other hill tracts, the annexation of Kuki #ancestralland into Manipur was made by sacred covenants signed by the #Kukichiefs and the #Maharaj of Manipur in a most solemn manner. 

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