Lingayats hold a distinct position in the history of Karnataka beginning with the cultural legacy from the twelfth century and continuing into the twentieth century for the prominent role in the non-Brahmin movement by deploying education as a means to achieve social mobility and to attain solidarity among the various sections of the diverse community. The possible loss of social status in the caste hierarchy in the late nineteenth century prompted Lingayat caste entities to embark on the legacy of Sanskrit scholarship that was eventually deployed to lay an unprecedented claim in Sanskrit education across the region of Kannada speaking territory. This study explores how the usage of Sanskrit for mass education by the Lingayat mathas enabled caste consolidation, by re-appropriating a Brahmanical language in Mysore state and to certain extent in the region of Bombay Karnataka. Through this exploration, it pushes us to re-consider the Brahmin-non-Brahmin binary, within which the history of education in the Mysore princely state is narrated from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.

Lingayats在卡纳塔克邦的历史上占有独特的地位，其始于十二世纪的文化遗产，并一直延续到二十世纪，在非婆罗门运动中发挥了重要作用，其方式是将教育作为实现社会流动和实现团结的手段多元化社区的各个部分。在19世纪末，种姓等级制度中可能会失去社会地位，促使Lingayat种姓实体继承了梵文奖学金的遗产，该奖学金最终被部署为在卡纳达语地区的梵文教育中取得了空前的声望。这项研究探讨了Lingayat mathas如何将梵文用于大众教育，从而实现了种姓整合，通过在迈索尔州和孟买卡纳塔克邦地区一定程度上重新采用梵语。通过这种探索，它促使我们重新考虑婆罗门-非婆罗门的二元关系，其中描述了迈索尔王储州的教育历史从19世纪后期到20世纪初。