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: The extent of the Manipur kingdom prior to the advent of the British was debated quite extensively when {{U|Chaipau}} wrote the initial paragraphs. See [[Talk:2023–2024 Manipur violence/Archive 1#Changing Manipur's history and boundary?]]. It became clear that there is no scholarly consensus on it, and there is no clear evidence available either. The British writings are wholly inadequate to settle the issue, because they didn't write anything about Manipur before they themselves got involved, and when they got involved, they altered the situation. For instance, they armed and equipped Gambhir Singh with modern weaponry, using which he subdued the hill tribes. {{harv|Mackenzie, Relations with the Hill Tribes|2012|p=150}}.
: The best that can be said about the traditional Manipur kingdom is that it might have exerted some kind of control over the hills close to the valley, and perhaps those along the trade routes, but even then it was limited to occasional collection of tributes, ''not extending any form of administration''. See
:* {{citation |title=Governmentality: Power and Counter Conduct in Northeast India's Manipur and Nagaland |first=Andrew Lathuipou |last=Kamei |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2023 |isbn=9781000953664 |url=https://books.google.
: -- [[User:Kautilya3|Kautilya3]] ([[User talk:Kautilya3|talk]]) 22:57, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
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