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For the Meitei reader, however, the collection is a —and a brutal one. It challenges the community’s own internal silences: patriarchy within the family, caste-like hierarchies among the Meitei themselves, and the erasure of marginal groups (e.g., the Pangal Muslim or Naga communities) within the dominant narrative of Meitei nationalism. The "unspoken" includes not just state violence but also domestic violence, economic exploitation by one’s own kin, and the hypocrisy of celebrating warrior ancestors while shunning war-widows. manipuri story collection lonthoktabi new
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