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The complete conversion to Christianity among the Rongmei tribes in Manipur has few parallels in the history of religious conversions - a period in which entire tribes and communities abandoned their traditional beliefs and converted to Christianity within a span of a hundred years. Under these circumstances, only a few traditional primitive religions of these numerous tribes were able to withstand the mass exodus to Christianity. As a result, the twentieth century witnessed the demise of most traditional religions and their replacement by Christianity in the region. However, a few traditional religions have managed to survive and coexist with Christianity. This article attempts to give an insight into the efforts of the Rongmei in Manipur to preserve and propagate their indigenous religion, often drawing influences and inspirations from Christianity and other religions to preserve their traditional beliefs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Self-esteem is the summary judgement on one's personal value, system and standards as selfworth, self-respect, self-acceptance, self-regard, self-feeling and self-evaluation. It is a component of personality and relationship between one's real life and ideal life. Studies of age and sex difference on self-esteem during the onset of adolescence are important for understanding human psychology and behaviour. This study investigates self-esteem levels, impact of age and sex on self-esteem among visually and locomotor disabled adolescents in Manipur. This study was done on the randomly selected 60 visually and 60 locomotor disabled adolescents aged 12-19 years; from institutions at Imphal East and West Districts of Manipur. Data were collected using Sorensen Self-esteem Test (2006) to assess the self-esteem among disabled adolescents. The data were analysed with SPSS (Version 25.0). Descriptive statistics - mean, standard deviation, percentage and chi-square test were adopted and tested the hypotheses. Result showed that majority of the disabled adolescents had moderately low self-esteem. There was no significant difference on self-esteem among disabled adolescents having the mean score of visually disabled 18.12 with standard deviation 7.52 and for locomotor disabled adolescents was 16.57 with standard deviation 7.01,'t' value 1.17 with p-value 0.245 > 0.05 level of significance. Results showed that there was no impact of sex on selfesteem among the disabled adolescent boys and girls as 't' value 0.700 with 'p'-value 0.486 > 0.05 level of significance and there was impact of age on self-esteem among younger group and older group adolescent as 't'-test value 2.059 with 'p'-value 0.049<.0.05. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]