Crossword-Solution: MANIPURI 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

When, however, they had been two days without food, they came suddenly upon some Manipuri soldiers cooking rice.

The Kuki, the Naga and the Manipuri, none of which claim to be the original occupants of the country, have a tradition of a common ancestor, who had three sons who became the progenitors of the tribes.

Here the civilised peoples, and _ex hypothesi_ the intruders, are the Manipuri, Burmese, Arakanese, and the nearly extinct or absorbed Talaings or Mons in the west; the Siamese, Shans or Laos, and Khamti in the centre; the Annamese (Tonkinese and Cochin-Chinese), Cambojans, and the almost extinct Champas in the east.

The Hinduized Manipuri of the plains, that is, the politically dominant _Meithis_, as they call themselves, are considered by George Watt to be "a mixed race between the Kukies and the Nagas[413]." The Meithis are described as possessing in general the facial characteristics of Mongolian type, but with great diversity of feature.

Mangkassaras, the, 224, 226, 236 Manguianes, the, 237 Manipuri, the, 178 sqq., 181 Manobo, the, 247 Máns-Coc, the, 198 Máns-Meo, the, 198, 211 Máns-Tien, the, 198 Mansuy, M., 186 _n._ Man-tse.