Movom Jangvei of Sektaikarong village singing 'Tharon thooe tharon napii napaa o'. This recording was made as part of the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research work collection by Sumshot Khular.

Belun Sankhil sharing his family origin and forefathers and their family lineage at Phaaidaam village. This recording was made in Phaaidam village as part of the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research work collection by Sumshot Khular.

Reverend Renghong Khular singing a line of paam laa called 'Akhuu yuksuu Tamu ee, Tamu Phaaiyo santing kthxaa chenglim lam me.' This recording was made in Paraolon village as part of the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research work collection by Sumshot Khular.

Sankhil Shetphong of Thamlapokpi sings and explains the meaning of the folk song Reite Penang and “Khuungpaar Laa”. The song translates as follows: Flower bloom but we don’t know when they disappear. After they bloom as they disappear from the whole mountain range. [areiyo paar re, reite penang paar ee]. This recording was made as part of Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research project collection by Sumshot Khular.

Angshel Khular of M.Seljol singing Likhaa Laa. The song was sung during the festival organized by him in Suulaam area as he was a rich person in the local area. This is video is taken in the new village after they were displaced due to the burning down of the village and killing of 5 villagers from Betuk, during the Kuki and Naga conflict. This recording is part of the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research work collection by Sumshot Khular.

Recording of Lamkang Lamloon laa sung by Kephaar Sankhil and Shangpor Shilshi during the Lamkang folk song competition at Thamlapokpi under the supervisor of Shetphong Sankhil. The first time kids were taught to sing the cultural folk songs and dances. Taught by Shetphong Sankhil. The video is taken by Sumshot and Tony Khular as part of the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research Project.

Reverend Renghong Khular, founder of Lamkang Naga Baptist Association (LNBA) and president of Lamkang Literature Society sharing how he was instrumental for building the Paraolon village, establishing a school, and the work of the present Lamkang literature society. This recording was made in Paraolon village as part of the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research work collection by Sumshot Khular.

Rev. Nungpanlon Kumar Khular tells how the Nungkangching village embraced Christianity and how the village came about to be known as Nungkangching. The video was taken at the Lamkang Naga Baptist Association Centre at Thamlakhuren, Chandel. This is part of the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research project collection of Sumshot Khular.

Retelling of the Pear Story by Angam Sankhil of Hyderabad.

Recording of a telling of the Pear Story by Leivon Steney Lamkang in Hyderabad, India.

Recording of Melissa Robinson eliciting tone minimal pairs in a frame with Sumshot Khular.

Recording of Tyler Utt eliciting prefixes with Sumshot Khular.

Photograph of member of the India Venture Fund Group Jane Lorenzen, with fellow members Levi Acord and Janette Klein.

Recording of Melissa Robinson eliciting verb prefixes with the syllable tapping experiment. The recording was done on in Hyderabad as part of the research trip which as part of the University of North Texas India Venture Fund research trip.

Recording of Mary Burke eliciting words with gemination in a frame sentence with Sumshot Khular. Each word is a noun ending in a consonant uttered in the frame 'ava ___=a ktxhaa ktxhaa', meaning 'that ___ is nice/beautiful' to observe the affect of the '=a' enclitic on the final consonant of the target word.

Photograph of young Lamkang speakers commenting on a Lamkang narrative with Melissa Robinson and Jane Lorenzen in the computational linguistics conference room at IIIT-Hyderabad.

The purpose of this study was to better understand student learning in asynchronous computer-conference discourse (ASD) for non-native speakers of English in India through the Community of Inquiry (COI) framework. The study looked at ASD from an online course taught in the fall of 2015 to 25 students in a seminary in South India. All but one of the students were non-native speakers of English. The class consisted of 22 men and 3 women. Eight students spoke languages from the Dravidian family of languages (Malayalam, Tamil, Telegu and Kannada). Eight students were from the Northeastern states of Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura, where most languages are from the Sino-Tibetan family. Three students were native speakers of Indo-Aryan languages (Odiya and Assamese). Five students were from Myanmar representing several Sino-Tibetan languages. The COI is a framework used to understand learning in ASD, often used in online learning. To study the ASD of this group, critical discourse analysis (CDA) was used with the COI to capture the unique socio-cultural and linguistic conditions of this group. The study revealed that non-native speakers of English often reach the Exploration phase of learning but rarely show evidence of reaching the Resolution phase. This phenomenon was also …

This report discusses border disputes between China and India in the Himalayas and the recent dispute at Doka La over China extending a road into disputed territory between Bhutan and China.

The Jalakeli of the Ningol Pala, the Choir of the Royal Daughters, comprises of 6 compositions. Their lyrics are published here in the order in which they are sung. They date to the 19th century royal court of Manipur; the sixth is from the first part of the 20th century. The first four lyrics are called padavali, songs of praise to Lord Krishna and his consort the Lady Radha. They were composed during the reign of Maharaja Narasingh (regent 1834-1844; r.1844-1850) but gathered in a collection during the reign of his nephew Maharaja Chandrakirti (1834-44; 1850-1886). The first lyric is attributed to Ghanashyamara Das, and the second to Basu Ghosh; the fourth is by Kabi Karnapur. All were Bhakti poets of Bengali origin. The lyricist of the third padavali is unknown. All four are in Bangla, the language of worship and ritual in Manipur of the time. The fifth and sixth lyrics are called rachna, a lyrical form response of appreciation upon listenging to the Jalakeli. The fifth lyric (and the first rachna) also in Bangla, is attributed to Maharaja Narasingh himself and is in Sanskrit. It is reputed to have been composed upon the funeral services of his guru, …

Mohinisana Ningthemcha Elangbam Ongbi, renowned in her day as "The Whistler" talks about social values and their impact on marriage and performance. On growing up in a traditional elite family, restrictions on socialising, her arranged marriage, rules of exogamy, worship, and interaction with the royal court.

The House of Narasingh belongs to the Ningthouja Dynasty that has ruled Manipur continuously since its establishment in the 1st century AD according to its Court Chronicle, to the present day. Both the House of Narasingh and the House of Karta descend from Maharaja Garib Niwaz (1709-1748), also known as Pamheiba) and under whose rule Manipur adopted Vaishnavism and became a Hindu kingdom.

Sundari Ngangbam, a member of the Choir of the Royal Daughters, reminisces about her father, singer Ngangbam Nimai, Manipur's first recording artist, and her family, the House of Ngangbam to which Maharani Dhanamanjuri Devi belonged.

This version of the Asangba Nongjabi (Crimson Rainclouds) is in Manipuri using the Roman script.

This video is of Jalakeli, a women's Hindu Vaishnav ritual performance of Manipur, India. It was offered, as annual custom dictates, by the Shree Shree Govinda Jiu Jalakeli Pala on Buddha Purnima, the full moon of the Manipuri lunar month of Kalen (9 May 2017) at the Shree Shree Govindajee Temple of the Royal Palace of Manipur.