Know Basaveshwara

Basaveshwara was a 12th century Indian philosopher and a social reformer who pioneered the idea of democracy in the east even before anyone in the western world would have thought about it. He fought for core British values of freedom of speech, respect and tolerance. Thus Basaveshwara shares a conceptual relationship with Britain, the mother of all democracies.

This Basaveshwara statue project is to commemorate the millennium of Basaveshwara, who was a 12th century Indian philosopher, social reformer, statesman and a Kannada poet. It’s sad but true thousand years after his demise Indian society is plagued with caste and religious discrimination. Its time to realise that there is no place for caste or religious discrimination in the modern world and discover the true Basaveshwara within ourselves.