What is Meitei Hindus?
{{See|Manipuri Vaishnavism}} [[File:Plate 8-1 Folk-Lore, vol. 24.jpg|thumb|center|Meitei Hindu children acting as [[Krishna]] and [[Radha]] in the festival of [[Krishna Janmashtami]] in [[Manipur]].]] '''Meitei Hindus''' or '''Manipuri Hindus''' are the adherents of [[Hinduism]] and are native to [[Manipur]] kingdom and the [[South East Asia]]n regions. Meitei Hindus speak [[Meitei language]] ([[Manipuri language]]), which belongs to the [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]] language family and adhere to the [[Vaishnava]] section of their religion, [[Hinduism]]. [[File:Ras_Lila.jpg|thumb|center|Meitei Hindu children acting as [[Krishna]] and [[Radha]] in the [[Manipuri dance|Manipuri Rasa Leela dance]].]] ==History== Though there were earlier [[Brahmin]] settlements in [[Medieval Manipur]], the entire [[Meitei ethnicity]] remains to be ethno-religious to [[Sanamahism]] until the great historical event of the [[Puya Mei Thaba]] took place during the reign of [[:en:Pamheiba|Pamheiba]], the then Emperor of [[Manipur]] kingdom, after which the entire ethnicity were forcibly converted into [[Hinduism]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://e-pao.net/epSubPageExtractor.asp?src=manipur.History_of_Manipur.Historical_Evaluation_of_Puya_Meithaba_Part_1_By_Lokendra_Arambam | title=Historical Evaluation of Puya Meithaba Part 1 by Lokendra Arambam }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://e-pao.net/epSubPageExtractor.asp?src=manipur.History_of_Manipur.Historical_Evaluation_of_Puya_Meithaba_Part_2_By_Lokendra_Arambam | title=Historical Evaluation of Puya Meithaba Part 2 by Lokendra Arambam }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://e-pao.net/epSubPageExtractor.asp?src=manipur.History_of_Manipur.Historical_Evaluation_of_Puya_Meithaba_Part_3_By_Lokendra_Arambam | title=Historical Evaluation of Puya Meithaba Part 3 by Lokendra Arambam }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://e-pao.net/epSubPageExtractor.asp?src=manipur.History_of_Manipur.Historical_Evaluation_of_Puya_Meithaba_Part_4_By_Lokendra_Arambam | title=Historical Evaluation of Puya Meithaba P