Meitei Pangals
Pangals on Mawlid 2025 in Manipur Creative School | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 358,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| • India • Bangladesh • Myanmar | |
| Manipur | <240,000 |
| Assam | 80,000 |
| Tripura (Kamalpur) | 3000 |
| Mizoram | Unknown |
| Bangladesh | 25,000 |
| Myanmar | 10,000 |
| Languages | |
| Pangal, Bengali, Sylheti | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Meitei | |
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| Meitei people |
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The Meitei Pangals, also known as Meitei Muslims or the Manipuri Muslims, are a group of Meitei Muslims. The word pangal simply means 'Muslim' in the Meitei people similar as the Hui people. They live mainly in Manipur, India. Various historical sources have different dates for when Islam first entered Manipur. However, the date all sources seem to confirm as definitive is 1606. The origin of the Pangal people is equally varied.