Virashaivism in Karnataka
Basavanna and the Lingayat movement's radical critique of caste and ritual.
Key Questions
- 1How did the Vachanas democratize religious knowledge?
- 2What was the Lingayat stance on the rebirth theory?
- 3How did the movement empower the laboring classes?
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