Anirudh Kanisetti
Anirudh Kanisetti is a public historian. He is the author of Lords of the Deccan, a new history of medieval South India, and hosts the Echoes of India and Yuddha podcasts. He tweets @AKanisetti.
Original idea of Lingayat community failed. One of lingayat friend identify himself as Reddy and another person is proud lingayat (caste supermist)
Being from the lingayat community… I can attest to the fact that majority of Lingayats don’t even know the intricate details of lingayat history and the essence of the sect itself. In fact today lingayat community and people because of not getting a seperate recognition like jains, consider themselves to be part of so called upper caste, which is sad when you know how inclusive and egalitarian this movement was at it’s inception. Thank you anirudh for this article.