01169pab a2200193 454500 180718b2009 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Kshetrimayum, Jogendro Shooting the sun: a study of death and protest in Manipur 2009 p.48-54. 3 Oct Contemporary Manipur is often treated by scholars as a war zone and a state under siege. But that situation cannot be understood only by alluding to the militarisation of Manipur or by viewing it as a struggle among ethnic groups over resources. The power to let live and take life defines sovereignty not only for the state but also for insurgent groups aspiring for statehod. An analysis of Manipur's present condition should not deny intelligibility to the social life of the people. It is necessary to understand how people deal with the multiple forms in which death visits them every so often and how they try to exercise the violence in their midst. - Reproduced. Death - India - Manipur Violence - India - Manipur Violence Economic and Political Weekly N 83907 83907 83907 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 44, Issue no: 40 AR84367 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR