How can you say Newars are from India? Newari is a Sino-Tibetan language and its root is from there. And as for the name joshi, original joshis are brahmins, mostly from maharastra region in India. Any one can take a last name, but it doesnt mean their roots are from there. For instance, Joshi is a hindu brahman name from the root word in sanskrit joytsi, an astraloger. A newar could easily take up that last name as a family name. Also another example, slaves from africa were taken to america and were given typical white names like, smith, brown, windsor, does that mean those specific african american originated from England? Also another point, newars are either hindus or buddhist. If they are hindus, they are obviously going to take up a hindu name. not being racist or anything, just proving a point here. Here's another easy way of putting this. Nepalese people who have round eyes and look more liek from the indian subcontinent, are of indian origin, where as nepalese who have chinese features, like small eyes and flat noses are of mongloid decent. Peace