Kangleipak

The Kangleipak dynasty was the Meitei royal house of Kangleipak, the valley kingdom around Imphal. Meitei tradition traces the line, later called the Ningthouja, to King Nongda Lairen Pakhangba, enthroned at Kangla in the first century; its kings gradually absorbed surrounding clan principalities. They patronised the Sanamahi religion, and King Loiyumba, around the turn of the twelfth century, issued the Loiyumpa Silyel, one of the region's earliest written law codes.

Khagemba (r. 1597-1654) drove back invasions, introduced coinage and settled captured Chinese artisans at Kangla to build bridges and gates. Pamheiba, better known as Gharib Niwaz (r. 1709-1748), enlarged the kingdom and made Hinduism the court faith.

Burmese conquests opened the Seven Years Devastation of 1819-1826, which ended with the Treaty of Yandaboo and the restoration of King Gambhir Singh under British protection.