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India / Manipur: Three leading Manipuri prisoners in the hands of the British. Left to right: The Tongal General, the Jubraj and the Senaputty. Illustrated London News, 30 May, 1891

India / Manipur: Three leading Manipuri prisoners in the hands of the British. Left to right: The Tongal General, the Jubraj and the Senaputty. Illustrated London News, 30 May, 1891

The Anglo-Manipur war (1891) saw the conquest of Manipur by British Indian forces and the incorporation of the small Assamese kingdom within the British Raj.

Subsequently Manipur became a Princely State under British tutelage.

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