Tikendrajit Singh (29 December 1856 – 13 August 1891), also known as Koireng, was a crown prince of Kangleipak (Meitei for 'Manipur kingdom') in present-day northeastern India, which was a protectorate of British Raj at that time.
[1] Tikendrajit was the commander of the Manipuri army and engineered a palace revolution that led to the events known as the Anglo-Manipur War of 1891 or the Manipur Expedition.
Quinton, the chief commissioner of Assam, to recognise Jubraj Kulachandra Singh as the King but to arrest Senapati Tikendrajit.
Quinton arrived in Manipur on 22 March 1891 with a troop of 400 soldiers under Colonel Skene and asked Raja Kulachandra Singh to hand over Tikendrajit to him as desired by the British Governor General of India.
The order was announced on 13 August 1891 and Tikendrajit and Thangal General were publicly hanged at 5 pm the same day at Pheida-pung (Polo ground) in Imphal.