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Kalyani through time

Now Basavakalyan, Bidar district, Karnataka

  1. Theme 12d · 543 to 1200 CE; the Hoysalas and Yadavas to 1346

    The Deccan: Chalukyas to Yadavas

    Capital of the Western Chalukyas; Vikramaditya VI's court held Bilhana and Vijnanesvara

  2. Theme 12f · 600 to 1317 CE

    Bhakti in the south and beyond

    Where Basavanna was minister to the Kalachuri king Bijjala II and founded the Veerashaiva movement

  3. Theme M9 · 1200 to 1700 CE

    The Bhakti and Sufi movements

    Kalyana, where Basavanna's Anubhava Mantapa admitted women and the low born to open religious debate