Civilization spreads by exterminating the lower races

Longjam Tony *

Since I've never studied sociology in the past I've been following some European authors about how the civilization had actually started. Many authors have said many things. Indus valley civilization which flourished between 2600 BC- 1900 BC talks about how the early settlers like Aryans have migrated from their originals towards Indus-Sind province.

Excavators like Alexander Cunninghum and Charles Mason were the "first two" to have shown interesting in digging. Later on many prominent persons like Sir William Jones have said Aryans were Europeans. Germans like Max Muller claimed that Aryans migrated from Central Asia. Architect of the Indian constitution Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar have put forward that they were from Arctic region.

The man behind Arya Samaj "Shri Swami Dayanand Saraswati" claimed that they were Tibetians. The history to this very confusion remains a misery today. However, during my hours of research I found one very interesting Italian guy by the name "Januario Bruno" who believes in oral history. He says " a civilization spreads by exterminating the lower races".

And it is quite true because the will to live everywhere preys upon itself and in different forms with its own nourishment till the human race is completely wiped out as it subdues all the others and regards nature as a factory of its own use. Yet even the human race reveals in itself with the most terrible distinctiveness this conflict, this variance of the "will" will itself find the three followings:-

a) Terra Incognita b) Homo Homini Lupus C) Proton Psuedos

a) Terra is a Greek word meaning region. It's is the root for the word territory. Cognita means owner. Tera Incognita turned out to be "No man's land" later.

b) Homo Homini Lupus is a Latin phrase meaning "A man is a wolf to another man".

c) Proton Pseudos is a Latin word which has three events of exterminating a lower race. It says: The first false thing, the initial error, the first false step.

Now I'm putting the three different terms in the perspective of Manipur and I'm morally obliged to convey the message to my fellow Manipuris to see how much had been hidden in the past.

A)Tera incognita (No man's land): When the tripartite treaty of Yandaboo, 1826 between British & Burma with Thailand as its third party was signed the following points were agreed.

i) To abandon all claims to Assam, Cachar & Jaintia.
ii) To accept Manipur as an independent country.
iii) To accept a British resident at AWA while posting a Burmese envoy at Calcutta.

King Thibaw of Burma surrendered in 1885 and his dominions were annexed to the Indian empire and in 1935 British separated Burma from India. So, when a small colony (Manipur) had been declared independent by its mother kingdom (England) then how is it possible to have that small kingdom being annexed by a larger kingdom(India) again.

As we all know that freedom once given cannot be revoked, this is against humanity. Januario Bruno's "civilization spreads by exterminating the lower races" applies here as Vaisnivism/Hinduism swept into the Imphal valley by exterminating the meitei culture.

B) Homo Homini Lupus ( A man is a wolf to another man): This is quite simple as and when it comes to Manipur because every Tom, Dick and Harry or every Jane, Jenny & Jeniifer knows who was Shantidas Gosai. A wondering sanyasi called SHANTIDAS Gosai was a wolf to King Pamheiba/Garibniwas of Manipur.

C) Proton Pseudos (the three events of exterminating a lower race): The first false thing, the initial error & the first false step.

In Manipur's context, the first false thing was changing our nomenclature from KANGLEIBAK/SANALEIBAK to Manipur in 1709 AD by King Pamheiba under the influence of the wolf Gosai. The initial error that Manipur experienced was the penetration of Ramandhi Dharma (Vaisnism/Hinduism) which later became a major religion among the meiteis. There was an incident called "NONG KHANG ERUPPA" wherein meiteis were compelled to dip into the river to convert themselves into Hindu.

The first false step was the incident of merger October 15, 1949 where King Bodhachandra was summoned to Shillong, put under house arrest and eventually intimidated to sign the document of merger by Vk Menon who was sent by the then home minister Sardar Vallabhai Patel.

The objective behind writing this is to make my fellow Manipuris understand how a mighty meitei kingdom had been suppressed by a larger dominant Kingdom.

"Achumbana Yaiphare"
For Khwai Movement