How a battle in north-east India changed WW2

Seventy years ago, during World War Two, the Allied forces captured the then Burmese capital Rangoon from the Japanese.

But that defeat actually started in Kohima and Imphal, bordering Burma in north-east India, a year earlier.

British-led forces, which had earlier retreated from south-east Asia following a massive Japanese onslaught, finally stopped the Imperial army in Kohima and Imphal, repelling their attempts to enter mainland India.

Thousands perished in the campaign, often described as the Stalingrad of the East.

The BBC's Anbarasan Ethirajan reports.