Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c26.32

c26.32

The story of the name still survives in the close community of the Brahmins called ‘Mālavīs’—now Sanskritised as *Mālavīya*—a fair and handsome people with marked intellectuality and sharpness of business intelligence. They do not marry outside their own community. They had a colony as far removed as the vicinity of Allahabad and are now found in towns near about.