India / Manipur: 'Palmam qui meruit, ferat'! ('Who has earned it shall wear it'. Mr Punch giving a medal to 'Mrs Grimwood, the Heroine of Manipur'. Punch, June 27, 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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