The Thick Blood .

Throughout the 
various gradations of its nobility, it was the original policy to 
introduce some who were foreign in country and blood. Chiefs of 
the Rathor, Chauhan, Pramara, Solanki, and Bhatti tribes were 
intermingled. Of these several were lineal descendants of the 
most ancient races of the kings of Delhi and Anhilwara Patan ;
and from these, in order to preserve the purity of blood, the 
princes of Mewar took their wives, when the other princes of 
Hind assented to the degradation of giving daughters in 
marriage to the emperors of Delhi. The princes of Mewar never 
yielded in this point, but preserved their ancient manners amidst 
all vicissitudes. In like manner did the nobles of the Rana's 
blood take daughters from the same tribes ; the interest of this 
foreign race was therefore strongly identified with the general 
welfare, and on all occasions of internal turmoil and rebellion 
they invariably supported their prince. But when these wise 
institutions were overlooked, when the great clans increased 
and congregated together, and the crown demesne was impover- 
ished by prodigality, rebellions were fostered by Mahratta 
rapacity, which were little known during the lengthened para- 
mount sway of the kings of Delhi. This foreign admixture 
will lead us to the discussion of the different kinds of grants : 
a difference, perhaps, more nominal than real, but exhibiting a 
distinction so wide as to imply grants resumable and irresum- 
able. 

Kala Pattas.- It is elsewhere related that two great clans, 
descendants of the Ranas Rae Mall and Udai Singh, and their 
numerous scions, forming subdivisions with separate titles or 
patronymics, compose the chief vassalage of this country. 

Exogamy. — Chondawat and Saktawat are the stock ; the 
former is subdivided into ten, the latter into about six clans. 
Rajputs never intermarry with their own kin : the prohibition 
has no limit ; it extends to the remotest degree. All these clans 
are resolvable into the generic term of ' the race ' or Kula Sesodia. 
A Sesodia man and woman cannot unite in wedlock — all these 
are therefore of the blood royal ; and the essayists on population 
would have had a fine field in these quarters a century ago, ere 
constant misery had thinned the coimtry, to trace the numerous