The Evolution of Violence (The Weeping Gods of Manipur Book 9)

“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.The author, Hijam Monarsingh Dallo Rihmo is a Manipuri writer and poet whose work transforms political violence, indigenous memory, and fractured identities into mythic and allegorical literature with Manipuri aesthetics. Writing from within a conflict zone, he blends history, folklore, and philosophical inquiry to examine power, belonging, and civilizational rupture. His multi-volume project The Weeping Gods of Manipur, stands among the most ambitious contemporary literary attempts to narrate Manipur’s crisis from an internal moral and cultural perspective.His writings have appeared in The Sangai Express, E-Pao, Eksentrika, a South Asia Literary Magazine. Other works in The Weeping Gods of Manipur series and related titlesThe Crescent Highlands and the Dark RainbowsThe Crying Rains and the Blood LiliesChandel PoemsThe Weeping Gods of Manipur (combined volume of the first three books)The Creation of Emotions and Parables in Luwang LangolThe Dark KingThe Principles of CivilizationThe Art of Rebellion Read more