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Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa

In the imperial Gazetteer of India 1878, Pusa was recorded as a government estate of about 1350 acres in Darbhanba. It was acquired by East India Company for running a stud farm to supply better breed of horses mainly for the army. Frequent incidence of glanders disease (swelling of glands), mostly affecting the valuable imported bloodstock made the civil veterinary department to shift the entire stock out of Pusa. A British tobacco concern Beg Sutherland & co. got the estate on lease but it also left in 1897 abandoning the government estate of Pusa. Lord Mayo, The Viceroy and Governor General, had been repeatedly trying to get through his proposal for setting up a directorate general of Agriculture that would take care of the soil and its productivity, formulate newer techniques of cultivation, improve the quality of seeds and livestock and also arrange for imparting agricultural education. The government of India had invited a British expert. Dr. J. A. Voelcker who had submitted as report on the development of Indian agriculture. As a follow-up action, three experts in different fields were appointed for the first time during 1885 to 1895 namely, agricultural chemist (Dr. J. W. Leafer), cryptogamic botanist (Dr. R. A. Butler) and entomologist (Dr. H. Maxwell Lefroy) with headquarters at Dehradun (U.P.) in the forest Research Institute complex. Surprisingly, until now Pusa, which was destined to become the centre of agricultural revolution in the country, was lying as before an abandoned government estate. In 1898. Lord Curzon took over as the viceroy. A widely traveled person and an administrator, he salvaged out the earlier proposal and got London’s approval for the appointment of the inspector General of Agriculture to which the first incumbent Mr. J. Mollison (Dy. Director of Agriculture, Bombay) joined in 1901 with headquarters at Nagpur The then government of Bengal had mooted in 1902 a proposal to the centre for setting up a model cattle farm for improving the dilapidated condition of the livestock at Pusa estate where plenty of land, water and feed would be available, and with Mr. Mollison’s support this was accepted in principle. Around Pusa, there were many British planters and also an indigo research centre Dalsing Sarai (near Pusa). Mr. Mollison’s visits to this mini British kingdom and his strong recommendations. In favour of Pusa as the most ideal place for the Bengal government project obviously caught the attention for the viceroy.

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    DOCUMENTATION OF TRADITIONAL COSTUME OF CHIRU TRIBE OF MANIPUR
    (RPCAU, Pusa, 2023) CHANU, NINGTHOUJAM TAIBANGNGANBI; Gayatri
    A costume is a type of apparel that comprises haircuts, accessories and clothing that is particularly characteristic of a certain state or country, time period or group of people. It is the distinctive way that a person or group dresses or uses cosmetics to express class, gender, profession, ethnicity and nationality. This study was planned to collect information of traditional costume and the care and maintenance of traditional costume of Chirutribe and attitude toward their costume by end generation. The present study on Documentation of Traditional Costume of Chiru Tribe of Manipur was conducted at Imphal East, Noney, Kangpokpi and Senapati districts of Manipur with the sample size was 120 (male and female) sample was selected by using purposive sampling procedure. Survey and descriptive observation methods were used for data collection. The data were collected by personal interview and observation method from the respondents. The respondents were personally contacted at their place and were explained the purpose of the study to get the accurate information. Self-structured interview schedule was used as a tool to collect data. Chiru tribe are one of recognized tribes of Manipur. This study can bring the basic feature of Chiru tribe costumes of Manipur is wraparounds called “Ponveh” and drapes for female. There are varieties of ‘Ponveh’ and drapes in different way during different occasions. Chirutribe males dress is called as ‘Kaitap’ traditionally. Chiru tribe people were wear their traditional costume on special occasion like festival and other ceremonies. Since, some of then used their traditional costume daily, they take care of it by washing in detergent whenever needed. Some of them store their costume in order to prevent it from any damage, they wrap their costume in thin clothes and keep it in steel almirah. Chiru people wear their traditional dress to show their consolidation to their cultural background. End generation prefer to wear contemporary in daily use. Traditional costume has better craftsmanship then contemporary and to popularize the traditional costume social media play an important role.