​Panchamasali Lingayats

  • On 24th July, 2024, community leaders from Panchamasali Lingayats community held a meeting with lawyers to look at how to take forward the agitation which had fizzled out in 2023.
  • Panchamasali Lingayats is a sub-caste of Karnataka’s dominant Lingayat community.
  • The Lingayat community is an amalgamation of many sub-castes, who, put together, can affect electoral outcomes in 90-100 of Karnataka’s 224 Assembly seats.
  • Of these sub-castes, the agriculturalist Panchamasalis are the largest, making up nearly 70 per cent of the Lingayat population.
  • They claim to number around 85 lakh — about 14% of Karnataka’s population of roughly six ....
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