23/03/2016
"LAUNCHING THIS SPRING 2016"
MANIPUR: The Forgotten Nation of Southeast Asia
"The term India seems to be derived from the Greeks, who applied it to the vast regions beyond the river Indus, to them almost unknown. It is never given to any part of this region by the natives themselves. Both Darius and Alexander pushed their conquests beyond this famed river, though not so far as the Ganges; and from the offcers employed in these expeditions, the frst historians seem to have derived all their accounts. When the country, some centuries afterward, came to be better known, it was divided by Ptolemy (A. D. 150) into “Hither and Farther India;” making the Ganges the boundary. This distinction is still observed, and seems exceedingly proper. “Hither India” is but another name for Hindustan, including the whole peninsula between the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal, and extending northward to Persia and Thibet. “Farther India,” or India beyond the Ganges, embraces Burmah, Asam [Assam], Munnipore [Manipur], Siam [Thailand], Camboja [Cambodia], and Cochin-China[Vietnam]; or, to speak more comprehensively, all the region between China and the Bay of Bengal, southward of the Thibet Mountains."
-Adapted from Chapter 1 "Southeast Asia in General"
