{"id":7307,"date":"2022-11-27T07:32:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T02:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7307"},"modified":"2025-03-28T19:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:57:01","slug":"imphals-ima-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/imphals-ima-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Imphal\u2019s Ima Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ima Keithel, or Mothers\u2019 Market, is an all-women market, said to be the largest such shopping complex in Asia.<\/li>\n<li>It is a unique all women\u2019s market, having 3,000 \u201cImas\u201d or mothers who run the stalls, it is split [into] two sections on either side of road.<\/li>\n<li>Vegetables, fruits, fish and household groceries are sold on one side and exquisite handlooms and household tools on the other. Not far away is a street where beautiful wicker works and basketry are sold.<\/li>\n<li>Male vendors and shopkeepers are barred here.<\/li>\n<li>In 2018, the state government announced that legal action would be taken under the Manipur Municipalities Act, 2004 if any male vendor was found selling goods at the market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>History:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ima Market is centuries-old, and has its origins in Lallup Kaba, an ancient bonded labour system.<\/li>\n<li>Under the system, Meitei men had to compulsorily serve some time working in the military and on other civil projects, keeping them away from home.<\/li>\n<li>The women, thus, were left to manage on their own, and they developed a market system which is today the Ima Keithel.<\/li>\n<li>While the system is centuries-old, it had continued till the time of the British.<\/li>\n<li>Policies of the British government had interfered with the functioning of the Ima market too, but were met with stiff resistance from the women.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/what-is-imphals-ima-market-which-minister-jaishankar-called-a-great-example-of-nari-shakti-8293307\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ima Keithel, is an all-women market, said to be the largest such shopping complex in Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}