Kshetrimayum, Jogendro creator text xu| 2009 continuing ng p.48-54. 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 180718