Author: Shrabana Chattopadhyay

By Shrabana Chattopadhyay and Prithwijit Chakraborty The crisis in Manipur is not merely a regional disturbance confined to India’s northeastern frontier; it is a complex conflict shaped by history, identity politics, governance failures and geopolitical anxieties. Often reduced to an ethnic clash, the crisis is actually a convergence of territorial, political, religious and economic tensions that reinforce one another. At stake is not only peace in a border state but also the credibility of democratic governance and the stability of a strategically significant region connecting South and Southeast Asia. To understand the present conflict, it is essential to revisit Manipur’s…