Topic summary
Basaveshwara
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Basava.
Monuments and recognition
- The then President of IndiaAbdul Kalam inaugurated Basaveshwara's statue on 28 April 2003 in the Parliament of India.
- Basaveshwara is the first Kannadiga in whose honour a commemorative coin has been minted in recognition of his social reforms. The former Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh was in Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka to release the coins.
- On 14 November 2015 The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi inaugurated the statue of Basaveshwara along the bank of the river Thames at Lambeth in London.
- Basava Dharma Peetha has constructed 108 ft (33 m) tall statue of Basava in Basavakalyana.
- Vishwaguru Basaveshwara Statue is constructed in the year 2015 next to the lake in Gadag district of Karnataka. This is the tallest standing basaveshwara statue with the height of 111 ft.