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An operation in March and April 1891 following the murder of the Political Agent at Manipur.

The troops involved also included volunteers of the Calcutta Rifle Corps and the Surma Valley Light Horse

Award of the Victoria Cross to Lieutenant Charles James William Grant The London Gazette 26 May 1891 issue: 26165, page: 2805.
"Field Operations- Manipur [March- April 1891]" The London Gazette 14 August 1891 issue: 26192, page: 4369.
My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny by Ethel St. Clair Grimwood 1891 Archive.org. The author was the wife of the murdered Political Agent at Manipur
- Major Grant's Narrative page 283

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 The troops involved  also included volunteers of the [[Calcutta and Presidency Battalion| Calcutta Rifle Corps]] and the [[Surma Valley Light Horse]]
+==Records==
+*British Library catalogue entry [http://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000028.0x0000a3 Collection 352 Manipur Operations 1891 ‎ (1891-1893)]. In addition, there are Private Papers Manuscript catalogue references, Mss Eur
+*National Archives, Kew catalogue entries
+**[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6571112 PRO 30/40/12/3 Major General Sir John Charles Ardagh: Papers: Miscellaneous papers, including The Grimwoods and the Manipur disaste[r<nowiki>]</nowiki> 1891]
+**[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4414823 WO 106/145 The Manipur Expedition] War Office Correspondence and Papers
+==External links==
+*[http://marksimner.me.uk/the-manipur-expedition-of-1891/ "The Manipur Expedition Of 1891"] by Mark Simner 11 August 2015.
 ===Historical books online===
 *[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26165/page/2805  Award of the Victoria Cross to Lieutenant Charles James William Grant] ''The London Gazette'' 26 May 1891 issue: 26165, page: 2805.