Word: manipur
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...Japanese rush into Manipur, India's easternmost state, had apparently reached its peak, was receding before British attack. In North Burma General Joseph W. Stilwell's columns pushed slowly along the Ledo Road toward China. Airborne British and Indian Raiders, recently reinforced, roamed through the Japanese rear, slashing and wrecking...
...much that the Japanese troops had managed to fight, by their own peculiar brand of military osmosis, from the jungles of Burma onto the Manipur plain of India. It was that British troops seemed unable to fold them up now that they were on Indian soil. So, in spite of New Delhi assurances, the spring-legged little invaders seemed a greater threat every day to the Bengal-Assam railway...
Beyond the prongs of the Jap advance into little Manipur lies the sprawling province of Bengal, Bose's home. Beyond the immediate threat to Allied arms lies the chilling possibility that the Japs mean what they say when they promise 350,000,000 Indians immediate independence. Well may the canny Japanese recall how Kaiser Wilhelm shoved Lenin into a tottering Russian empire, watched him bring the structure down...
When the high priest of tiny Manipur heard that the Japs were drawing near (see p. 29), he advised the youthful Maharaja to take a third wife; in time of crisis, he said, three could better rule the ruler's heart than two. The Maharaja complied, then issued a ringing challenge: Manipur would resist the Jap to the last man. The young men of Manipur, busy dancing and throwing crimson and purple powder on one another, paused. Wedged between India and Burma, 400 miles northeast of Calcutta, 200 northwest of Mandalay and just south of the realm of Bong...
Saddest of all in food-loving, fun-loving Manipur today are the maids of marriageable age. When no war threatens and the moon is right, custom lets them waylay young men, strip and hold them until they pay the price demanded. If the victim demurs, they may lock him up until he changes his mind. When next the moon is right, no men will be on hand to play-if they heed the Maharaja's call...