Machine generated contents note: 1. State Formation in Mewat: Relationship of the Khanzadas with the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal State, and Other Regional Potentates -- 2. Natural Settings: Potential and Constraints -- 3. Social Formation of Meos: From Tribe to Caste -- 4. Resources of Mewat: Appropriation and Distribution -- 5. Bhomias -- Conclusion
Summary
'Contestatoions and Accommodations' charts the social, economic, and political history of Mewat from the 13th to the early 18th centuries. Denting the conventional image of communities in medieval India as self-sufficient, changeless, and autonomous entities, it takes up the case of Meo community of Mewat to argue that communities have regularly undergone profound socio-economic changes
