QUOTE(ndnboi @ Apr 25 2006, 01:05 AM)

ok so agarwals and kaisatyas originated in western UP.
Acharyas are chitpavans.
and Anu agarwal's pretty
there its all settled
its funny how castes arent that 'pure' anymore because Shruti Agarwal looks like other northeast people while Anu Agarwal looks like people from western India or maybe Shruti's mother is a northeastern ethnicity.
I never said kayasthas originated in UP only. Nandita Das is a Bengali Kayastha, lol. And Kayasthas and even some Rajputs live in Eastern UP too.
And you're right, I don't think any caste or any regional ethnicity is "pure." I've said so many times that you can have diversity within just one Indian family.

While I'm at it, I even know two UP Agarwals that look more "chinesey" than Shruti.
Maybe Shruti's mom is an NE ethnicity OR maybe her ancestors assimilated with the rest of the NE population. There are Southies with North Indian roots/ancestry, but they still look South Indian. Historians think that this is because their ancestors inter-married with the natives. But then you also got some of those Konkanis that still look like your stereotypical Kashmiri. LOL, you got the same historians saying that these "Southies" maintained their roots by strictly marrying within their sect.
All kinds of things are possible.