Mina Family History & Genealogy

History

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Name Origin

Mina or Meena is a Sanskrit word which means fish.

Spellings & Pronunciations

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Nationality & Ethnicity

Mina or Meena is an ancient tribe living in western part of India. Its population is about 80million.They live mainly in states of rajasthan and madhya prades. One archaeologist Mr Pruthi has tried to read decipher Script of Indus valley civilisation and has concluded that Mina or Meena were the people who lived in Indus valley civilisation. After decline of indos valley civil they. Lived in Matsya territory in rajasthan.matsya means fish.the flag of Mina had two fishes.The Rigveda the ancient holibook has mentioned that Aryans fought a war with matsya.THere were a large number of small kingdoms of min /Meena in rajasthan area in scientist period .In the period about 1000ad these kingdoms taken over by rajputs. Meena or Mina are hardworking g people engaged in agriculture. They are courageous. And loyal. THE studies conducted by many anthropologists and historians and British govt concluded that Mina /Meena are aboriginal tribe.THe Govt of India has given them the status of scheduled tribe with certain privileges. They are culturally very rich.they still maintain record of their ancestry as each one has to enter theirname in records which ismaintained by a poeple called Rana; bhat;and Java etc . I N many villageswe can find written anscestry of more than 1000year old.

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Early Minas

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