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Rediscover Jibon Santal: The Tea Garden Sardar Who Became a Legislative Pioneer
Jibon Santal rose from the labour hierarchy of Majdihi Tea Estate to become a union founder and elected legislator. This long-form profile connects his career to the Santal Hul of 1855, the colonial plantation system and the development of organised tea labour in Sylhet. It explains why his 1946 victory in the Sreemangal Tea Gardens…
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Understanding Manipur Dynamics
By Air Marshal Anil Khosla (Retd). Manipur was merged fully with the Indian Union on October 15, 1949, but it became a full-fledged state more than two decades later, in 1972. Manipur is known for its ethnic and cultural diversity. But the state has been plagued by internecine conflicts among different ethnic groups and tribes.…