ABSTRACT
This chapter delves into some contemporary questions about colonialism and its continuing implications for northeastern India in general and for Manipur in particular. It reassesses the intensification of the colonial encounter with the region through mercantilism and the appropriation of systems of religious and spiritual knowledge in the face of varied resistance struggles. The chapter argues that the British and European framing of northeastern India as the strategic frontier continues to persist and that the region is caught in this image.
