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1886.] Kavi Raj Sliyamal Das— The Mind trihe of Jdjpur. 
From the Vaidehas are descended the Andhras and the Meds— 
destined to live (in the outskirts of or) without the town. 
( 6 ) — 
The Meds are a mixed class resulting from the intermarriage of a 
Vaideh man to a Bhil woman. 
The Meds thus descended from the Vaidehas spread in the hilly 
tracts mentioned above. 
After the lapse of centuries perhaps, their name was most likely 
modified into the form Mew, while the portion of the country inhabited 
by them was called Mewal (contr. of Mew + Alaya 
The pergunnah now known by that name is no longer occupied by 
them, not even to the least extent or number. 
Most probably the Mews now found in the tract called Mewat, 
subject to the Ulwar and Bhartpore states, were expelled their origi¬ 
nal abode, I suppose, by the Gujars [a tribe from Sindh, who were the 
barbariansf known to have sacked the kingdom of Vallabhi in the 
peninsula of Saurashtra—which came to be called after them Gujarat] 
who advanced towards Mewul, either, in pursuit of the descendants of 
the Vallabhi kings of the Solar Line, who had sought shelter in the 
southern ranges of the Arvallis, or with a desire to extend their sway 
over those hill tracts where small ponds dug out by them still survive 
as the landmarks of their authority. 
Of course the Mews would or could not have been expelled all at 
once, but only gradually after the Gujars had contracted marriages 
with their women ; and I sui^pose the Minas, (Menas) to be a cross-race 
between them. Their present name seems to be merely a contraction 
of the full name Mewna (given them by the Gujars, who regarded them 
of a lower standing than themselves. 
The term Mewna *fT means,—descendants of the Mews— (*ri) na 
being the GujratiJ particle for the preposition of, signifying relation. 
This tribe is found to live in increasing numbers in Mewal and in 
the hilly land to its S. E. while the hills to its west are occupied by the 
Bhils [the Mews having emigrated to Mewat as mentioned above]. 
* Vol. Ill, p. 666. 
f (a) Forbes’ Eas Mala. 
(b) Wilson’s Ind. Caste, Vol. II, p. 91, 
(c) Bun Eaj Oliaora. 
(a) Gujrati story. 
Gujrati words are still greatly mixed with the spoken latiguage of the people 
who live in Mewal and in the hilly tracts of Mewar generally. For Mewalsee a?Ue 
p. 29. 
