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Recent papers in Lingayat
ಒಮ್ಮೆ ನಾನು ಅಲ್ಲಮ ಮತ್ತು ಬಸವರನ್ನು ಖುದ್ದು ಭೆಟ್ಟಿ ಮಾಡಿ ಹೀಗೊಂದು ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾವವನ್ನು ಮಾಡಿದ್ದರೆ, ಅವರೇನು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು ಎಂದು ಯೋಚಿಸಿ ನೋಡಿ: "ಅಲ್ಲಮ ಮತ್ತು ಬಸವ ಸರ್, ನಾನು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಸೂಚನೆಗಳನ್ನೆಲ್ಲಾ ಅನುಸರಿಸಿ, ನೀವು ತಿಳಿಸಿಕೊಡುವಂತೆ ಬದುಕಲು ಸಿದ್ಧನಿದ್ದೇನೆ. ಆದರೆ... more
... In less than hundred years, we have found new uses for what has remained of these traditions today. We have successfully turned these drainage cisterns into our battlefields-cum-flea market-cum-bedrooms. We use the remains of the... more
The paper begins by drawing our attention to the problems in the current understanding of bhakti traditions. By focusing on the way the Lingayat vachanas speak about caste (or jati), this paper suggests that the popular belief that they... more
In many ancient traditions, weather Western or Eastern, the veneration of the footprints left by a god, a saint, or a master is quite common. Indeed, plenty of such images, in stone, marble, silver, ivory or some that are even painted,... more
Recent studies have reported that the mausoleum of Aḥmad Shāh I Bahmanī (r. 1422-1436), in Ashtur (Karnataka), is frequented by both Muslims and Vīraśaivas. Now, setting out from the pilgrimage performed on the occasion of the sovereign’s... more
SAFFRON TERROR HYPE OR REALITY? Watch how Hindutva intellectuals speak lies, misrepresent court judgments while denying the existence of the HINDUTVA TERROR which killed MK Gandhi, Govind Pansare, Narender Dabholkar, MM Kalburgi, Gauri... more
This is the 911th birth year of Basavēšvara (1106-1167/8), one of the most revolutionary social reformers, a mystic, a poet and statesman of South India lived in the 12th century. Like many other social philosophers in South India,... more