User:Haoreima/Meitei Renaissance
A tableau depicting the motifs of Meitei dragons, Hiyang Hiren & Pakhangba; a painting depicting the Kao (bull) being captured; the dual statues of Kangla Sha; a relief art of Khuman Khamba; the Great Great Grandfather Pakhangba Temple of the Kangla | |
| Native name | Meitei: Mitkap Thokpa |
|---|---|
| English name | Meitei Renaissance |
| Time | 20th-21st centuries |
| Location | Manipur & other Northeast Indian states |
| Also known as | Meitei Revivalism, Manipuri Renaissance, Traditional Meitei cultural revivalism |
| Type | artistic movement, cultural movement, linguistic purism, religious movement and revivalism |
| Theme | renaissance |
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The Meitei Renaissance (Meitei: Mitkap Thokpa), also referred to as the Meitei Revivalism or the Manipuri Renaissance, is the movement of the revivalism of the traditional Meitei art and culture in the 20th-21st centuries. It primarily includes the Meitei linguistic purism movement, the Meitei script revival movement and the Sanamahi religion revival movement. To additional extend, it also influences the Meitei classical language movement.
Linguistic purism
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Religious revivalism
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On the 31st of July 2002 and on the 1st of August 2003, the Manipur State Legislative Assembly passed some resolutions to allot a unique code for the Sanamahi religion in the official census data but it wasn't approved by the Central Government of India.[a] On the 5th of August 2022, the Manipur State Legislative Assembly again passed a resolution to record the Sanamahi religion in the official census data using a separate unique code for it so as to officially recognise it as a minority religion of India.[1]
In the 2010s, many social, religious and political activists, associations and organisations struggled through various movements to attain official recognition of the Sanamahi religion as a recognised minority religion of India.[2][3][4]
Script revivalism
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All the newspapers in Meitei language (Manipuri language) will be published in the Meitei script (Meitei: Meetei Mayek) instead of the formerly predominant Bengali script from 15 January 2023. This was decided unanimously by the script revivalism activists in a joint meeting of the "Meetei Erol Eyek Loinasillol Apunba Lup" (MEELAL), "All Manipur Working Journalists’ Union" (AMWJU) and "Editors' Guild Manipur" (EGM) in Imphal in 2022.[5][6][7][8][9]
See also
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[edit]- ^ The Constitution of India guarantees every citizen of India the right to freedom of religion and there is a provision for the protection of religious and ethnic minorities.
References
[edit]- ^ "Separate code mooted for Sanamahi religion : 06th aug22 ~ E-Pao! Headlines". e-pao.net.
- ^ Chingkheinganba, Salam. "Okram Joy threatens to throng at assembly if house fails to recognise Sanamahi as minority religion - Imphal Times". www.imphaltimes.com.
- ^ "Minority religion status sought". www.thesangaiexpress.com.
- ^ "Government should declare Sanamahi as minority religion, says O Joy". www.thesangaiexpress.com.
- ^ "Meetei Mayek in newspapers". www.thesangaiexpress.com.
- ^ "Meetei Mayek in newspapers : 29th jan22 ~ E-Pao! Headlines". e-pao.net.
- ^ Time, Pratidin. "Meetei Mayek to Replace Bengali Script in Manipuri Newspapers from 2023". Pratidin Time.
- ^ HYNews. "All Bengali script Manipuri Dailies in Manipur to Print in Meitei Eyek (Script) from 15th January 2023". hynews.in.
- ^ "State dailies to cease Bengali script Manipuri papers from Jan, 2023 : 29th jan22 ~ E-Pao! Headlines". e-pao.net.