As a tribute to the freedom fighters of Manipur, the

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As a tribute to the freedom fighters of Manipur, the Union government has decided to rename Mount Harriet, an island peak in Andaman and Nicobar islands. It will now be known as Mount Manipur. Manipur played a significant role in resisting the British in the Northeast during the 1857 revolution and in 1891. The state was the only one to implement its own constitution. Mount Harriet, the third-highest island peak in Andaman and Nicobar islands, where Manipur’s Maharaja Kulchandra Singh and 22 other freedom fighters were imprisoned during the Anglo-Manipuri war (1891).