Language Policy of India is elucidated in the Constitution, implemented through various executive orders that have been issued from time to time and the judicial pronouncements since 1950. It deals with the use of languages in administration, education, judiciary, legislature, mass communication, etc., are pluralistic in its scope. It is both language-development oriented and language-survival oriented.

Manipuri language is one of the oldest languages in Southeast Asia, which has its own script and written literature. Manipuri language is the mother tongue of the Manipuris and the Manipuri Muslims.There are approximately 1.9 million speakers of Manipuri language, which used it as a lingua franca among the 29 different ethnic groups of Manipur. Manipuri language is the only T.B (Tibeto-Burman) language in India with its own script, which has been in existence from 1st century A.D. Except not being recognized by Sahitya Academi, Manipuri language has all the criteria for recognition of it into Eighth Schedule languages. Though it was recognized by Sahitya Academi in year 1971, it was not included into the Eighth Schedule until 1992. Dominance and Suppression to Manipuri language by the Language Policy of India since 1950 as compare to other languages of India can be highlighted by analysing the relevance, recognition of it into the Eighth Schedule and uses of Manipuri language in Administration, Education and Mass communication etc. in the country. Such the paper tries to focus on the some important areas where Manipuri language was Dominance and Suppression by the Language Policy of India with help of historical facts and evidences of the language.