Basava created much controversy by actively ignoring the societal rules associated with the caste system, which he wished to abolish.

It is said that Basava, rebelled against the rigid practices of the caste system prevalent in mainstream Hindu society, and eventually began new philosophy of Lingayatism with a casteless society at its core.

Basava fought against the inhuman practice of caste system, which discriminated people based on their birth, and certain rituals in Hinduism.

Saints and Sharanas like Allama Prabhu, Akka Mahadevi, Siddarama and Basava were at the forefront of this development during the 12th century.

With his honesty, hard work and visionary mission, Basava rose to the position of Prime Minister in the court of king Bijjala, who ruled from 1162 — 1167 at Kalyana ( presently renamed Basavakalyana ).

By allowing untouchables to have lunch at his residence and praising the historic marriage of a Brahmin woman and an untouchable man, Basava caused orthodox members of King Bijjala's court to go to the king with such stories, some true and some false.

Basava Premanand is regarded as Kovoor's spiritual successor, at least in India.

Basava Sagar Dam is a dam constructed across Krishna River, located at Narayanapur in Yadgir district, India.

* Mukto-mona. com, an Indian Skeptic's explanation of miracles: By Yuktibaadi, compiled by Basava Premanand

In the twelfth century Basava founded the ViraShaiva school or Virashaivism.

and " Om Sri Guru Basava Lingaya Namaha " is the Dwadahsa Mantra.

While Basava understood shatsthala as a process with various stages to be attained in succession, Channabasavanna, Basava's nephew, differed radically from his uncle and held that a soul can reach its salvation in any stage.

Basava exhorted all wearers of Ishta linga to practice daasoha without reservation.

Basava established Anubhava Mantapa to establish spiritual social and economic democracy.

While the Indian society had converted workmanship into castes, Basava reversed the castes into workmanship again.

The Society differentiated people based on birth while Basava offered equal status to all.

Speaking of Basava: Lingayat religion and culture in South Asia.

Basava Premanand ( 17 February 1930-4 October 2009 ) was a skeptic and rationalist from Kerala, India.

Described by BBC as India's leading guru buster, Basava Premanand has " been honoured by the government with its highest award for the promotion of scientific values among the public.

After the death of Abraham Kovoor in 1978, Basava Premanand continued his challenge by offering INR 100, 000 to any person who would demonstrate any psychic, supernatural of paranormal ability of any kind under satisfactory observing conditions.

Basava () ( also known as Bhakti Bhandari Basavanna () or Basaveshwara (), ( 1134 – 1196 )) was a philosopher, Statesman and a social reformer from present-day Karnataka, India.

Basava spread social awareness through his poetry known as Vachanaas.

" Brahminical thought " interpret the Vachanaas as essence of Vedic knowledge while attempting to explain the social revolution, Basava was able to bring in.

But this theory, however, fails to explain why other well known religious leaders like Shankaracharya and Madhwacharya, who were very well acquainted with Vedic knowledge did not address the issues, that Basava did in later part of the history in 12th century.

Basava, like Gautama Buddha, did not preach people the intricate aspects of spirituality ; but, he taught people how to live happily in a rational social order later came to be known as Sharana movement.

It is believed that Lord Basava was born into a Shaiva Brahmin called madarasa and Madalambike family residing in a small town, Basavana Bagewadi in Bijapur district of northern Karnataka state, India in 1134 AD.

Basava, said to have grown up in an orthodox Hindu religious household and rejected many practices in Vedic society based on some of the religious Scriptures called Agamas, Shastras, and Puranas in Sanskrit language.

Basava Purana, a 13th-century Telugu biographical epic poem, written by Palkuriki Somanatha, and its detailed Kannada version, written by Bhima Kavi in 1369 CE are scared texts in Lingayatism.

In some communities, such impermanent works survive longer than works created with permanent paints because the community views the work in the same vein as that of the civil protester who marches in the street — such protest are impermanent but effective nevertheless.

Kelly was a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party which occasionally created difficulty for him as his period of greatest prominence coincided with the McCarthy era in the U. S. In 1947, he was part of the Committee for the First Amendment, the Hollywood delegation which flew to Washington to protest at the first official hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

Amongst the policies introduced by Trudeau's last term in office included an expansion in government support for Canada ’ s poorest citizens and the introduction of the National Energy Program ( NEP ), which created a firestorm of protest in the Western provinces and increased what many termed " Western alienation ".

A council of workers called the St. Petersburg Soviet was created in all this chaos, and the beginning of a communist political protest had begun.

This created a new ' proletariat ' which, due to being crowded together in the cities, was much more likely to protest and go on strike than the peasantry had been in previous times.

This created a storm of public protest, compounded when Buck was called as a witness to the trial and repeated the allegations in open court.

In 1969 the Art Workers Coalition ( AWC ), a group of New York City artists who opposed the Vietnam War, in collaboration with Museum of Modern Art members Arthur Drexler and Elizabeth Shaw, created an iconic protest poster called And babies which depicts US soldiers as " baby killers.

Bevan was appointed Minister of Labour ( during which he helped to secure a deal for railwaymen which provided them with a big pay increase ) in 1951 but soon resigned in protest at Hugh Gaitskell's introduction of prescription charges for dental care and spectacles — created in order to meet the financial demands imposed by the Korean War.

Upon publication, Uncle Tom's Cabin ignited a firestorm of protest from defenders of slavery ( who created a number of books in response to the novel ) while the book elicited praise from abolitionists.

In 1794 a whiskey tax was created, drawing in protest over 8, 000 settlers from western Pennsylvania to the North Braddock area, as part of the Whiskey Rebellion.

Many citizens spoke against the annexation and created picket signs and petitions to protest against it.

To protest the Progressive Conservative government's legislation that would amalgamate the municipalities of Metro Toronto into the city of Toronto, the small New Democratic caucus introduced 11, 500 amendments to the megacity bill, created on computers with mail merge functionality.

Local protest groups, led by colonial merchants and landowners, established connections through correspondence that created a loose coalition that extended from New England to Georgia.

After a couple of weeks this became untenable ; a global protest against the censorship emerged, and a global network of mirror sites was created by the online community.

In October 2010 he and 100 other leading artists signed an open letter to the Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt protesting against cutbacks in the arts-he created a new work, " Reckless ", for the protest.

For their second single, The Nice created an arrangement of Leonard Bernstein's " America " which Emerson described as the first ever instrumental protest song.

The anger of those Argentines with the means to invest abroad created a framework for the popular middle-class protest termed the cacerolazo.

On Christmas Day, he created the Vietnamese Christmas Nativity Burning to protest against the Vietnam War.

He created a poster “ Enemy of Mankind ” denouncing the barbaric destruction of cultural monuments, and picture “ Glow ” expressing a protest against World War I.

The Canadian Alliance ( the common short form name of Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance ) was a new political party in the election, having been created only months earlier as the successor to the Reform Party of Canada, a party originally founded as a Western Canada protest party which sought to become a national party in the 1990s.

In the days after the U. S. presidential election of 2000, online activist Zack Exley anonymously created a website that allowed people to suggest locations for gatherings to protest for a full recount of the votes in Florida.

In the late 1980s and 1990s, federal conservative politics became split by the creation of a new western-based protest party, the populist and social conservative Reform Party of Canada created by Preston Manning, son of Alberta Social Credit Premier Ernest Manning.

It was in this backdrop that the movement that first started as a protest against linguistic oppression, soon morphed into one that began demanding a separate state be created consolidating all Kannada speaking regions.

When Tinsley resigned his title in protest, the ACF and EDA created the new title Man vs. Machine World Championship, and competition proceeded.