Mewatin.adj.

1788 J. Rennell Mem. Map Hindoostan (new ed.) Introd. p. xlix Of the state of the internal government of Hindoostan, a judgment may be formed, by the punishment inflicted on the Mewatti, or the Banditti tribe, which inhabit the hilly tract, within 80 miles of Delhi.

1824 J. Malcolm Mem. Central India (ed. 2) II. xiv. 174 The Mewatties, a well-known Mahomedan tribe in Hindustan, have long resorted to Central India.

1855 H. H. Wilson Gloss. Judicial & Revenue Terms India 340/2 Mewátí,..a tribe of Rajputs inhabiting the province of Mewat, now known as Mucheri, and formerly notorious for their turbulent and predatory character.

1880 P. W. Powlett Rajputana Gazetteer III. 174 Humayun..conciliated them..by causing his minister Bairám Khan to marry a younger daughter of the same Mewátti.

1908 Imperial Gazetteer India (new ed.) XVII. 313 The Muhammadan Meos call themselves Mewātīs.

1914 H. A. Rose Gloss. Tribes & Castes Punjab & N.-W. Frontier Province III. 80 In the Muhammadan historians the Meos appear to be unknown by that name, but the Mewátis were notorious throughout the Muhammadan period.

1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (Version 99.1) at Rajasthan Aboriginal peoples in the Alwar, Jaipur, Bharatpur, and Dholpur areas include the Minas (Mewatis) [etc.].

1901 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 787 Sixteen real dialects spoken over the area in which Rājasthānī is a vernacular..fall into four main groups, which may be called Mēwātī, Mālwī, Jaipurī, and Mārwārī.

1908 G. A. Grierson Ling. Surv. India IX. ii. 44 Mēwātī is, properly speaking, the language of Mewat, the country of the Mēōs, but it covers a larger tract than this. It is the language of the whole of the State of Alwar, of which only a portion is Mewat.

1958 B. N. Prasad in V. K. Narasimhan et al. Lang. India 90 The New or Modern Indo-Aryan languages... Rājasthānī (Mārwarī, Mewāri, Mālawi, Jaipuri and Mewatī).

1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (Version 99.1) at Rajasthani languages There are four major groups [of dialects spoken in Rajasthan]: northeastern Mewati, southern Malvi, western Marwari, and east-central Jaipuri.

1832 J. Tod Ann. Rajast'han II. 393 Gírdhur..with a small but select band hunted the Mewatti leader down, and..slew him in single combat.

1880 P. W. Powlett Rajputana Gazetteer III. 171 Rewári is referred to as being in the hands of a Mewátti chief.

1908 G. A. Grierson Ling. Surv. India IX. ii. 45 I am not acquainted with any literary work in the Mēwātī dialect.

1974 Contemp. Sociol. 3 40/2 The dominant political position of the Meos in Mewati villages was severely weakened with the partition of India.