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forced labour where the male member of society between the age of 17 and 60 should work freely for ten days in every forty days of work). The struggle in which more than 5,000 women took part lasted for a week. Although the
British authorities had eventually succeeded in suppressing the uprising, they were compelled to rescind the order.
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Although the movement was started as an agitation by
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after it was ravaged by fire. It was stirred up by the heirs-apparent of the erstwhile ruling family who did not like the selection of Chura Chand Singh as the King of
Manipur. They persuaded the women of Manipur to resist the British colonial government's order to resuscitate the Lalup (A sort of
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The second Nupi Lan was set off by the indiscriminate export of rice from
Manipur by Marwari business men with the support of the colonial government. It resulted in a famine-like situation in Manipur even though it was harvest season.
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Historians opine that the Nupi Lan movement contributed much to the making of
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fought valiantly against the
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The first Nupi Lan which broke out in 1904 was against the order by the
British colonial authorities to send Manipuri men to Kabow Valley to fetch timber for re-building the then Police Agent's
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