alice 🪞♥️ 🎩🐇Lingayat
noun
: a member of a monotheistic religious denomination of Hindus, a Shaiva sect of southern India marked by wearing of the lingam and characterized by denial of caste distinctions
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#Lingayat seer Dingaleshwara Swami withdraws nomination from #Dharwad
Speaking with the media, Dingaleshwara Swami said, he has withdrawn the nomination based on his guru's advice.
https://thesouthfirst.com/karnataka/lingayat-seer-dingaleshwara-swami-withdraws-nomination-from-dharwad/
#Lingayat seers want to contest polls, ask Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to drop Pralhad Joshi as Dharwad candidate
In a meeting, the seers noted that in North India "Kavidharis" have been given opportunities in politics, but it wasn’t so in South India.
https://thesouthfirst.com/karnataka/lingayat-seers-want-to-contest-polls-ask-bjp-to-drop-pralhad-joshi-as-dharwad-candidate/
TheIndiaForumWith reports of Yediyurappa being replaced as CM, he has received support from seers of the dominant Lingayat community. Janaki Nair writes on the new visibility of Karnataka's seers in the political sphere.
#Yediyurappa #lingayat #karnataka
https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/subverting-reservations-karnataka
Subverting Reservations in Karnataka
The unusual sight of Karnataka's influential swamis at the forefront of protests to tweak reservation quotas portends the end of reservations as a constitutional means for social justice, and a reassertion by the dominant castes. The saints came marching in on Bengaluru, leading their faithful in vociferous demand for backwardness. The padayatras by two of Karnataka’s influential castes, over several weeks from January to March, need not have attracted the attention they did were it not for the unusual sight of them being led by the mathadishas, the chief abbotts, of two powerful monastic institutions of the respective communities.
With reports of Yediyurappa being replaced as CM, he has received support from seers of the dominant Lingayat community. Janaki Nair writes on the new visibility of Karnataka's seers in the political sphere.
#Yediyurappa #lingayat #karnataka
https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/subverting-reservations-karnataka
Subverting Reservations in Karnataka
The unusual sight of Karnataka's influential swamis at the forefront of protests to tweak reservation quotas portends the end of reservations as a constitutional means for social justice, and a reassertion by the dominant castes. The saints came marching in on Bengaluru, leading their faithful in vociferous demand for backwardness. The padayatras by two of Karnataka’s influential castes, over several weeks from January to March, need not have attracted the attention they did were it not for the unusual sight of them being led by the mathadishas, the chief abbotts, of two powerful monastic institutions of the respective communities.
If the current agitations in Karnataka leave the state & the centre with no option but to completely transform reservations as we have known them, it will serve the purpose of restoring #Lingayat & #Vokkaliga dominance over state and society in #Karnataka.
https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/subverting-reservations-karnataka
https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/subverting-reservations-karnataka
Subverting Reservations in Karnataka
The unusual sight of Karnataka's influential swamis at the forefront of protests to tweak reservation quotas portends the end of reservations as a constitutional means for social justice, and a reassertion by the dominant castes. The saints came marching in on Bengaluru, leading their faithful in vociferous demand for backwardness. The padayatras by two of Karnataka’s influential castes, over several weeks from January to March, need not have attracted the attention they did were it not for the unusual sight of them being led by the mathadishas, the chief abbotts, of two powerful monastic institutions of the respective communities.
Patrikai.comகர்நாடகாவில் லிங்காயத் மடத்தின் தலைவராக 33 வயதான இஸ்லாமியர்
https://www.patrikai.com/33-year-old-muslim-youth-to-head-hindu-lingayat-mutt-in-karnataka/
#Lingayat #Karnataka #LingayatMutt #Gadag #Hindu #Muslim #pontiff #SocialJustice
கர்நாடகாவில் லிங்காயத் மடத்தின் தலைவராக 33 வயதான இஸ்லாமியர் | | Patrikai - Tamil Daily - latest online local breaking news & reviews - Tamilnadu, India & World - politics, cinema, cricket, video & cartoon
33 year old Muslim youth to head Hindu Lingayat mutt in Karnataka