The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.s2.61

v3.c29.s2.61

The most turbulent of these petty chiefs were the leaders of the Meos, inhabitants of Mewāt, the ‘ill-defined tract lying south of Delhi and including part of the British Districts of Muttra and Gurgāon, and most of the Alwar and a little of the Bharatpur State’; the Hindu landholders of Baran, or Bulandshahr, and Etāwah; and various chiefs holding lands near the confluence of the Ganges and the Jumna. The depredations of the Meos extended across the Jumna into the Doāb, and northward even into the streets of Delhi. The ruling family accepted Islam, and became known as Khānzādas; and Bahādur Nāhar, whose tomb still stands at Alwar, and who ruled Mewāt at the time of Tīmūr’s invasion at the end of the fourteenth century, was one of the most powerful chiefs in the neighbourhood of Delhi.