Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah has renamed Mount Harriet, a historical tourist spot in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, as ‘Mount Manipur’.
- Shri Shah referred to the “significant contribution” Manipur had made in resisting the British, especially during the historic 1891 Anglo-Manipur war.
- After the Anglo-Manipur War of 1891, several persons from Manipur, who had fought the British in the war, including Maharaja Kulachandra Dhwaja Singh, were exiled to the Andaman Islands.
- Since the cellular jail (Kalapani) was yet to be built, Kulachandra and the prisoners were kept on Mount Harriet, a hillock in what is now the Ferragunj tehsil of South Andaman district.
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