Imphal, I would not call home anymore, was the line said by a 20 year old college student survivor of mob violence, during her interview by Shivnarayan Rajpurohit of Newslaundry a YouTube channel, who tragically witnessed the murder of her brother and her mother at the hands of mobs at Imphal, the capital of Manipur situated in the north eastern part of India. Here the Meitei community need to reflect if killing and burning churches and houses of thy own neighbours is the best way to preserve the state. Manipur: A legacy of a colonial state Manipur state is a classic example of a colonial state and its continuing legacy of being a colonial state not only owing to the historical fact that the Colonial British Govt. of India once administered the area but on account of the very fact that the majority Meiteis were given the rein to directly govern and administer the tribal areas post creation of Manipur state in 1972. Ironically, the Meiteis had no settlement on the hills of Manipur until