In 712 A.D Mohabed-Been-Kasim invaded Sindh, a tribe of Rajputs known by the name of Mers , was very powerful in Southern part of Sindh. Col. Walker in the history of Kathiawar notes that the Mers were intimately connected with the Jethwa Ranas of Porbandar. He also mentions that the Jethwas and the Mers belong to the same fold. The Mers could not keep up the same traditions and could not compete with the Jethwas. The Jethwas went ahead and the Mers lagged behind. In the course of time the Jethwas began to keep themselves distant from the Mers and the Mers were soon looked down upon as the sub-ordinate or second rate people. The distances went on widening and the Jethwas completely disassociated themselves from the Mers, so, much that they used the Mers to help them in their battles against their enemies and in return of the services rendered 24 villages in Barda. These twenty four villages were considered to be their possession even to this day. Of course, these Mers were exempted from all sorts of taxes except only nominal tax. Today we find a great difference between the Jethwas and the Mers in so many respects such as manners, custom, the ways of the life due to different problems and different circumstances. But one thing is quite clear the Jethwas depended for their present and past position on strength of Mers and today too we find that the Jethwas have not forgotten the debt gratitude they owe to the Mers. It was custom that when a Rana of Porbandar ascended the throne or the Gaddi, the headman of Mers used to cut his smallest finger-tip of his hand and used to make a “Tilak” mark of blood on the forehead of the Rana. This fact speaks for itself.

According to the Barots they read in their own books that the forefathers of the Jethwa and the Mers were the same and they came and settled in Saurashtra at the same time which is around 900 A.D. The problems that the Jethwa Rajputs had to solve were the same that the Mers had to solve. So we can see that they were sailing on the same boat. Barots go so far as to maintain that the Jethwas belong to the line of the younger brother and so long as they were afraid of the common enemies they lived as brothers. As soon as the common danger disappeared, they began to look at one another with strange eyes. This is not only what has happened in the case of Jethwas and Mers but in the case of so many communities. A sort of bar often comes and stands between even the children of the same father. Changing circumstances has always created petty communities and so many petty factions. There are so many other proofs also to convince us that the Jethwas and the Mers belong to a common stock.

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