← BasavannaVachanasby BasavannaPoetry collection critiquing caste system and advocating social reformFind on Amazon↗About the authorBasavannaKannada philosopher-poet and social reformer whose vachanas (free-verse prose-poems) attacked caste, ritual, and religious hypocrisy with remarkable directness. He founded the Lingayat movement in Karnataka.More by BasavannaKalanameva→Vachana Sahitya→