Some of you may know that there are lots of Maharashtrian Brahmins who settled in TN and AP perhaps in the 1600-1700 time period. They refer to themselves as Deshasthas.
They are mostly madhvas by sect with a small percentage of smarthas. The madhva section would have most likely migrated from the southern parts of Maharashtra/Northern Karnataka where there are lots of Madhvas (even in modern day Solapur). The question is do we find any Madhyandinas or Kanvas amongst these maharashtrians settled in South India, are they all rigvedi (with a few families of Hiranyakeshi - if they were originally Chitpavans ?). Madhyandinas did have some political representation (e.g., Pant Pratinidhi) so we should expect to find some representation in the south but curiously it seems to be absent, unless they changed their Shakha later on.
They are mostly madhvas by sect with a small percentage of smarthas. The madhva section would have most likely migrated from the southern parts of Maharashtra/Northern Karnataka where there are lots of Madhvas (even in modern day Solapur). The question is do we find any Madhyandinas or Kanvas amongst these maharashtrians settled in South India, are they all rigvedi (with a few families of Hiranyakeshi - if they were originally Chitpavans ?). Madhyandinas did have some political representation (e.g., Pant Pratinidhi) so we should expect to find some representation in the south but curiously it seems to be absent, unless they changed their Shakha later on.
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