I really appreciate those people who wrote articles about the B'nei Menasheh people. However, the hidden truth about my people can't be revealed as easily as most people think. Only those who are engaged in depth can understand who we really are.
Finding out the truth about the B'nei Menasheh takes a long time. Someone who goes to India for a couple of days will never know the truth about these people. As the B'nei Menasheh intermingled their traditions with different 
We B'nei Menasheh are trying our level best to come back to our roots and abolish all the wrong ideas spread by the missionaries.
kinds of modern beliefs, many of which had been inculcated by Christian missionaries, the essence of their traditional truths and inner selves was deeply hidden. A short inquiry would therefore only reveal the superficial level of the B'nei Menasheh culture.
Let's learn a little about how the B'nei Menasheh, known as Kukis in India, rejected foreign culture in the past.
When Christianity begun spreading its wings among the Kuki people, the missionaries taught the Kukis that the only way to save their soul from destruction is to accept Jesus as their savor and embrace Christianity as their religion. Some people among the Kukis blindly began to follow Christianity in the late 19th century and established the first Baptist church in November 1894, in the Tujang Vaichong village. The news about the establishment of the church began to spread among the Kuki leaders of the time, who then started a rebellion over British rule on their land.
As this rebellion went on for years, it eventually led to open war against the British from 1917 until 1919. This war became known as the Kuki War of Independence, in which many British officers and soldiers lost their lives. This war was truly against foreign domination and the spreading of an alien religion and culture among the Kukis. This is how the Kuki people protected and preserved their traditions, sometimes at the cost of their lives.
However, the Kukis had to surrender to the British due to a lack of arms and ammunitions after three years of war. Then Christianity began to spread to all parts of the Kuki country.
What and whom did the Kukis worship before the advent of Christianity among them? This question, if asked of the Christian Kukis, would be answered as they were taught by the missionaries; i.e., "Our forefathers worshiped unknown spirits in the jungle, a snake, or they worshiped trees and stones." However, this notion is complete nonsense.
The Kuki forefathers knew of the God who is the creator of all and who has control over all of His creatures. To Him alone they offered sacrifices and prayed. The missionaries abolished all Kuki traditions and inculcated in the Kuki Christian youths a wrongheaded notion about their past. This is the reason why most of the Kuki people today believe that their original traditions denied the living God, who the missionaries taught them was Jesus.
Now, we B'nei Menasheh are trying our level best to come back to our roots and abolish all the wrong ideas spread by the missionaries. We are also attempting to bring back those who were lost, spiritually, to the hands of the missionaries. We like to spread our true national identity and religion to all the Kukis, no matter where or who they are. This is not considered proselytizing another people, which is against Jewish Law, it is embracing our long lost family and telling them to come back home. As long as we don't teach Judaism to Gentiles, who are not from the Kuki tribes, we are not violating any law. Rather, it is a mitzvah to teach the Kukis who they are and whom they should worship. There is nothing political or against the law in bringing those lost tribes back to their roots.
I have been in Manipur twice as an emissary to teach Judaism among the Kukis (B'nei Menasheh). I sometimes taught them our customs, culture and traditions, their true meanings and its connection to the Jewish tradition. Some people are so excited that they see learning our tradition's connection to the Jewish tradition as more important than learning Halakha (Jewish Law). I therefore taught them the centrality of Halakha to living a true Jewish life, which is most important after knowing our true identity. In this way, many people realized their true identity and have come back to their Jewish roots and embraced Judaism. This approach is one of the reasons why there has been a tremendous growth in the number of Kukis who practice Judaism. This is how we are to teach our long lost brethren.
Some of the Kuki traditions analogous to those in Jewish tradition are those associated with death, burial and mourning, the observance of three festivals a year, sacrificial offerings, healing of sick people by the priest, an annual offering of a white rooster, and many more oral traditions as well. Moreover, tradition tells us that our forefather Elmun, the grandson of Nier, suffered from leprosy and was kept outside the village, because according to the customary laws of the Kukis a person suffering from leprosy was forbidden to stay inside the village boundary. There, he was killed by an enemy who took away his head. These traditions and the names of our forefathers are all from the Jewish tradition and laws.
If one knew the true essence of the B'nei Menasheh people and their ancient traditions, one would never ignore 
There is an ancient traditional belief that the Kukis will one day return to their land.them or obstruct them from coming back to their roots - and their home. Their love for the Land of Israel did not begun overnight, when the missionaries taught them about it. Rather, there is an ancient traditional belief that the Kukis will one day return to their land. They longed for a land to where they would one day be brought back. However, tradition does not mention the name of that land.
Moreover, when some Kukis who read the Bible brought to them by the missionaries were asked about it, they said that the laws in the book are very much analogous to what we did in the past. When they began inquiring into the matter in the latter half of the 20th century, it was found that the true identity of the Kuki people and religion is Judaism.
The Amishav and Shavei Israel organizations are taking great care not to bring Christian Kukis to our land. We, the B'nei Menasheh, are also cautious not to bring our Christian relatives here unless they fully accept the thirteen principles of Judaic faith and live a life of a true Israeli, according to Halakha. This is one of our preemptive measures to prevent any future imbroglios among us regarding our faith. And I hope that all the Kukis will one day return to our roots, with the help of HaShem.