Irabot

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Meitei/Manipuri (India/Manipur)

Meaning

a Meitei masculine name of great historical significance borne by Hijam Irabot Singh, the revolutionary leader and communist organiser who led the peasant uprising movement in Manipur in the 1940s and 1950s and is revered as one of the heroes of the Meitei people's resistance to both colonial rule and postcolonial political marginalisation; Irabot was a poet, dramatist, and political theorist as well as a revolutionary, and his legacy combines cultural creativity with social struggle in a way that makes him a particular hero for Meitei intellectuals and activists; to name a son Irabot is to honour this tradition of principled resistance and to connect the child to the history of Manipuri struggle for dignity, autonomy, and social justice that continues to shape political consciousness in the valley to the present day

Gender

male