“In Manipur, even the gods flee the shrines.”

The Evolution of Violence is the ninth installment in The Weeping Gods of Manipur, a major literary series documenting Manipur’s unfolding tragedy from within the conflict itself. Written largely through parables, the book reflects on the social and political condition of Manipur two years into the violence, exploring the fragile aftermath of rupture, fear, and moral exhaustion.
The work is thematically rooted in the post-violence condition, how societies survive after bloodshed, how power reshapes itself, and how trauma settles into everyday life, the normalization of violence. The series functions as a live literary chronicle of an ongoing historical tragedy.

A central chapter presents a Conflict Containment Model, offering proposals grounded in the behavior of both rational and irrational actors, marking a rare convergence of literature, political theory, and ethical inquiry. It uses the emotional and political realities of other countries as case study to explain the Manipuri Anomaly. It revisits the effective utilization of Article 371C and widens into the tribal specificities around Northeast Region.

The Weeping Gods of Manipur stands out in Manipuri literature as the First Multi-Volume Book Series with a coherent thematic structure centered on society, politics, identity, power, trauma, culture and collective memory.

Several sections revisit insurgent memory, the establishment of military outposts and Manipur’s militarization, the shifting interplay of tribe, domicile, and power and their impact on civilians and Manipur’s fate in the decades to come.

Other works in The Weeping Gods of Manipur series and related titles

1. The Crescent Highlands and the Dark Rainbows
2. The Crying Rains and the Blood Lilies
3. Chandel Poems
4. The Weeping Gods of Manipur (combined volume of the first three books)
5. The Creation of Emotions and Parables in Luwang Langol
6. The Dark King
7. The Principles of Civilization
8. The Art of Rebellion