Khongnangthaba University is a private university in Manipur with its statutory establishment recorded by the University Grants Commission on 23 February 2021. The university describes itself as the first private university established under the Manipur Private University Act, 2021, Act No. 6 of 2021. It is named after Lourembam Khongnangthaba, an eighteenth-century scholar and advocate of Meitei faith and traditional knowledge, and its stated educational mission gives unusual prominence to the preservation and academic study of indigenous knowledge systems. The institution is recognized under Section 2(f) of the UGC Act and states that it is empowered to award degrees under Section 22. Its academic structure includes undergraduate, master's, doctoral, diploma and certificate programmes. Alongside conventional higher education, the university seeks to integrate traditional knowledge, cultural resources and contemporary research. This orientation gives the institution a distinct identity within Manipur's higher-education landscape, where local history, language, culture and indigenous intellectual traditions form part of the broader academic environment. Khongnangthaba University's development is comparatively recent, so its verified institutional history is concentrated in its statutory creation, recognition and academic rollout rather than a long predecessor-college timeline. Its official prospectus emphasizes intensive research, skill development and an academic environment designed to connect traditional expertise with national educational frameworks. The university's continuing growth therefore centers on building programmes, research capacity and governance while maintaining its founding objective of giving traditional knowledge a formal place within modern university education. The university's name and mission explicitly connect its academic identity with Manipur's indigenous intellectual heritage. Its programme structure spans undergraduate through doctoral study as well as diploma and certificate education. UGC records 23 February 2021 as the university's establishment or gazette-notification date. Before university establishment — The institutional concept developed around preserving and advancing Manipur's traditional knowledge within formal higher education.