212 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [June, 1906. 
Chitas and are to be found only in Merwara. They like being 
called Rawats. 
7, In addition to the Chités (with their subdivisions of 
Merat Katats and Merat Goyats) and the 
Other Clans. Barar clans who claim descent from Anhal 
and Anip, the grandsons of the Chauhan King, Prithwi Raj, there 
are other clans such as the Pramar, the Moti, the Gehlot and 
others who claim descent from others than a Chauhan Mina stock. 
Members of these clans are to be found in both Ajmer and 
eg pat or Muhammadans, their customs were the 
of t ~ Nena > same. With certain well-defined restric- 
Clans, tions, such as that a Chita could not marry a 
since 1875. The Barar clan live principally in the Todgarh 
Tahsil. Enquiries made in that Tahsil show that the Rawats 
there gave up intermarryi years ago with Merats The 
madan religion have always been in the minority. It is natural 
also that the Merats, with their vague notions of the tenets of 
their religion and with no desire to make proselytes from their 
toms 
of ‘whom 
they had always intermarried and interdined. The fact of 
the matter is, that the difference in religion had hitherto 
b one in n : i the Rawats, 
like the Islam of the Merats, is of a very vague and 
tea ge ot a The isolated position of Merwara and its 
Merwara district, and stately Hindu temples and Muhammadam 
