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a movement, naturally, arouses considerable interest and is a fit 
subject of study. A social change is in progress in the small British 
district of Merwara in Rajputana. Those portions of the Merwara 
clans who profess to be Hindus and who, up to 1903, intermarried and 
interdined with the Merat Katats, who profess Muhammadan- 
ism, have now decided to abandon this intercourse, on the general 
nd that Hindus tint and interdine with the adher- 
et 
and intermarried freely, should suddenly ree these old-estab- 
lished social customs on the ground that their religions are differ- 
or centuries this difference of religion has been no barrier 
to social intercourse. Then how comes it to pass that it is now 
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be able to understand a social revolution 
Merwara of this nature, it is necessary to know some- 
nj rc ee thing of the tract called ‘“ Merwara’ and e 
: e people who inhabit it. Merwara, which 
means the “hilly country” (Sanskrit meru, a hill) is a small 
Merwara Clans 
Brahmans, Bhati Rajputs and Minas, The present people do 
not claim to be the original inhabitants. They are promiscuously 
designated “ Mers” which mean me is-nol 
i : awar Pargana of Merwara, and were 
pitably entertained by the Gajars of that place. One day the two 
