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▪ I. Meo|ˈmiːəʊ|
Also 9 Mewoh.
[Native name.]
An Indian people of Rajasthan and the Punjab, whose religion is a blend of Hinduism and Islam; a member of this people. Also as adj. Cf. Mewati n. and a.
1832J. Tod Ann. Rajast'han II. 393 At this period..the mountainous region, called Méwat, was inhabited by a daring and ferocious banditti, called Mewohs, who pillaged in gangs. 1855H. H. Wilson Gloss. Judicial & Revenue Terms 339/2 Meo, (?) H. A class of cultivators in the province of Dehli. 1873E. Balfour Cycl. India (ed. 2) III. s.v., Meo, cultivators in the Delhi province, are a tribe of people inhabiting the low hills about Gurgaon. 1880P. W. Powlett in Rajputana Gazetteer III. 201 Meos do not marry into their own pál, or clan, but are lax about forming connections with women of other castes, whose children they receive into the Meo community. 1885G. C. Whitworth Anglo-Indian Dict. 204/2 Mewáti, the name of a branch of the Jádon Rájputs;..they rule in Alwar, and are connected with the Meo tribe of the same country. 1896W. Crooke Tribes & Castes N.-W. Provinces & Oudh III. 487 Whatever their connection with the Mînas may be, the Meos themselves pretend to be of Râjput descent. 1916R. V. Russell Tribes & Castes Cent. Provinces India IV. 235 Abu Fazl writes that the Meos were in his time famous runners, and one thousand of them were employed by Akbar as carriers of post. 1970D. G. Mandelbaum Society in India II. xxix. 558 This intensified Islamization is shown by the Meos, the dominant jati in some two thousand villages on the borderlands of Rajasthan and Punjab. Ibid. 559 The Meos have adopted more of Muslim practices in the last 17 years than they had in the previous 450 years.
▪ II. Meo
var. Miao n. and a. |