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India / Manipur: The Senaputty, Prince Tikendrajit Singh, sentenced to death and hanged by the British on 13 August, 1891

India / Manipur: The Senaputty, Prince Tikendrajit Singh, sentenced to death and hanged by the British on 13 August, 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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