William of Ockham
Manipuris number a little over one million. They follow a sycretic blend of traditonal animism and Vaishnavite Hinduism. The tribes in the hills are mostly recent converts to Christianity. Like most of the people in the 8 Upland states of northeastern India, Manipuris are ethnolinguistically Tibeto-Burman.
Because of its isolation, Manipur has retained a remarkably developed range of cultural expressions that defy usual distinctions between classical and folk forms. It has traditional and modern expressions of high as well as the popular art forms.