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Changing script of Newspapers - Manipur
December 17 , 2022
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- Newspapers in Manipur are set to replacing the Bengali script that’s currently in use with Meitei or the Manipuri script.
- The Meitei script was once patronised by Meitei rulers but which fell into disuse with the advent of Hinduism and eventually disappeared.
- The earliest epigraphic record of the script is a stone inscription from Khoibu village which was erected on the orders of Meidingu Kiyamba (1467-1508).
- With the advent of Hinduism, Bengali scripts became so popular that stone inscriptions in the 18th and 19th century were in Bengali script.
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