> exacerbated by caste, regional differences and Bollywood Dissenting from the cliche of 'caste-cow-curry' as the 'core' culture of India, here's some inconven

> exacerbated by caste, regional differences and Bollywood Dissenting from the cliche of 'caste-cow-curry' as the 'core' culture of India, here's some inconvenient counterfactuals. - Skin tone often varies more b/w North-South than within particular locations. - Even within particular geographies, the large-scale migrations in light of the millennia of plunder of India, has resulted in admixtures of North-India population in the South. Kashmiri Hindus in particular are found in large numbers on the coast/north of Karnataka (the first president of Planned Parenthood for instance); there are other such groups in TN as well. - Large numbers of Brahmins in South India are actually, shock, horror, both poor, and dark-skinned. - The only 'fair' looking ones I've seen are within certain sub-groups within sub-groups of Tamil Brahmins who have explicit histories of migrations from N. India. Ditto with the 'Seths' and other migrant communities who've settled down in the south for many centuries. - North-East India who populations have both E.Asian features (which in current zeitgeist is in greatly higher standing), and vastly lighter skin-tone, are neither rich, nor have 'elite' status considering their rather isolated histories.