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singular oasis of comparative civilization and organized society

1. Meitei civilization, or the culture of Meitei people, living in the central valley of Manipur.
   • 2006, Rajendra Kshetri, The Emergence of Meetei Nationalism A Study of Two Movements Among the Meeteis‎^[1], Mittal Publications, →ISBN, pages 31, 32:

     "Who are the Meeteis of whom it has been said that they live in "this singular oasis of comparative civilization and organised society, set in the midst of congeries of barbarious peoples, over whom its rulers exercise an authority which, if scarcely, approaching the settled polity of more advanced communities, is at least in the direction of peace and order."

   • 1923, James George Frazer, Folk-lore in the Old Testament Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law‎^[2], Macmillan, →ISBN, page 183:

     Although by blood and language they are akin to the wild hill tribes which surround them, they have advanced to a higher degree of social culture, so as to form a singular oasis of comparative civilization and organized society in the midst of a wilderness of barbarism.

   • 1908, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Frederick Denison Maurice, Henry Stebbing, James Silk Buckingham, John Middleton Murry, John Sterling, Norman Maccoll, Thomas Kibble Hervey, Vernon Horace Rendall, William Hepworth Dixon, editors, The Athenæum A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama · Volume 2‎^[3], J. Francis, page 478:

     Sir C. Lyall describes the Meitheis as forming a singular oasis of comparative civilization and organized society, set in the midst of a congeries of barbarous peoples, over whom its rulers exercise an authority which, if scarcely approaching the settled polity of more advanced communities, is at least in the direction of peace and order. ...

関連する語

• Classical Meitei culture