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{{dablink|Loi redirects here. For other meanings, see [[LOI (disambiguation)]].}}
'''Loi''' is the word in [[Meitei language]] (Meiteilon) for the term "[[Scheduled_Castes_and_Tribes|scheduled caste]]". The term "Loi" is given to the Meitei villages of [[Manipur]] in northeast [[India]], who refused to adopt [[Hinduism]] when the newly converted Manipuri King ordered all his subject to adopt the religion.
There are 73 Loi villages in Manipur, only 8 of them have come under presidential provision of schedule caste reservation of the [[Constitution of India|Indian Constituition]].
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