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[[Kuruba]] is a [[Hindu]] [[Caste system in India|caste]] native to the Indian states of [[Karnataka]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/civic//articleshow/44927686.cms |title=Vokkaliga, Lingayat leaders oppose state's caste census |work=Bangalore Mirror |date=2014-10-25 |access-date=2018-01-12}}</ref> [[Andhra Pradesh]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Singh|first=K. S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bfAMAQAAMAAJ&q=kuruba+golla|title=Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames and Titles|date=1996|publisher=Anthropological Survey of India|isbn=978-0-19-563357-3|language=en}}</ref> [[Telangana]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=General|first=India Office of the Registrar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cQUdAQAAMAAJ&q=Dhangar|title=Census of India, 1961|date=1962|publisher=Manager of Publications|language=en}}</ref> and [[Tamil Nadu]]. This is a list of notable Kurubas.

==Saints==
* [[Kanaka Dasa]] (1509 – 1609), poet, philosopher, musician and composer from modern Karnataka.<ref>{{cite book |last=Shri |first=Satya |date=2017-01-23 |title=Demystifying Brahminism and Re-Inventing Hinduism Volume 1 - Demystifying Brahminism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mMf1DQAAQBAJ |publisher=Notion Press |quote=Kanakadasa (1509-1609 A.D.), Tradition makes him a member of shepherd (Kuruba) community who was a chief (nayaka) of security forces under a local king |isbn=9781946515544}}</ref>
*[[Balumama]] (1892–1966), Indian guru, religious leader.<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Balumamachya Navana Changbhala, a new historical show to start soon |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/marathi/balumamachya-navana-changbhala-a-new-historical-show-to-start-soon/articleshow/65335504.cms|archive-url=https://archive.today/20201112220801/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/marathi/balumamachya-navana-changbhala-a-new-historical-show-to-start-soon/articleshow/65335504.cms|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-11-12|date=2018-08-09}}</ref>
* Basavaraja Devaru, Indian guru, the head of the [[Dharwad]]-based Mansur Sri Revana Siddeshwara [[Matha|Mutt]].<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Kurubas reiterate demand for ST status |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/Kurubas-reiterate-demand-for-ST-status/article16438812.ece|archive-url=https://archive.today/20201112220929/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/Kurubas-reiterate-demand-for-ST-status/article16438812.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-11-12|date=2016-12-02}}</ref>
*[[Beerendra Keshava Tarakananda Puri]], first pontiff of the Kaginele Kanaka Guru Peetha, the cultural and spiritual centre of Kuruba Gowdas of Karnataka.
*[[Perumizhalai Kurumba Nayanar]], 22nd of 63 Tamil Nayanmar saints.

==Warriors==
* [[Harihara I]] (1336-1356) and [[Bukka Raya I]] (1356-1377), founders of the [[Vijayanagara Empire]].<ref name="The YadavasGod3">{{cite book |last=Dhere |first=Ramchandra Chintaman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jUeeAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA243 |title=Rise of a Folk God: Vitthal of Pandharpur, South Asia Research |publisher=Oxford University Press |others=Feldhaus, Anne (trans.) |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-19977-764-8 |pages=243, 245 |quote=Traditional sources claim that the Kurumas or Kurubas founded the Sangama dynasty, the founding dynasty of the Vijayanagara Empire. Vijayanagar's kings were Yādavas; therefore they were Kurubas; and therefore Viṭṭhal-Bīrappā must have been their original god. The temple of Anantaśayana depicts a clothed form of Viṭṭhal. At Mallikārjun temple near Mallappanaguḍī, there is a broken image of Viṭṭhal in a shrine. In Hampī, bas-reliefs of Viṭṭhal are sculpted on pillars of the Viṭṭhal temple and Kṛṣṇa temple. In Lepākṣī, there are sculptures of Dhangars standing with a blanket draped over his head, his arm resting on his staff, and his chin resting on his arm. He must be there as a reminder of the family that built the temples. There is no other reason for a human being to be carved here, when almost every other carving on the numerous pillars of these temples depicts a god or a mythological event. These two popular motifs, Dhangars and Viṭṭhal, present a clear image of the family background of the founders of Vijayanagar and the roots of their faith. |author-link=Ramchandra Chintaman Dhere}}</ref>
* [[Dridhaprahara]] (860-880), founder of the [[Seuna (Yadava) dynasty]] that ruled [[Maharashtra]]. It is the foundational dynasty of modern day Maharashtra and first major kingdom to use [[Marathi Language|Marathi]] as a state language.<ref name="Saki 1998 143">{{cite book |last=Saki |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ywNvAAAAMAAJ&q=seuna+kuruba |title=Making History Karnataka's People and Their Past |date=1998 |publisher=Vimukthi Prakashana |page=143 |asin=B00069WZK8}}</ref><ref name="Rodrigues">{{cite news |last=Rodrigues |first=Tensing |date=2017-08-26 |title=The Yadavaraya |url=https://thenavhindtimes.in/article/the-yadavaraya |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201021220346/https://thenavhindtimes.in/article/the-yadavaraya |archive-date=2020-10-21 |location=Goa}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Cynthia Talbot |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pfAKljlCJq0C&pg=PA212 |title=Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-19-803123-9 |pages=211, 212}}</ref><ref name="Ethnohistory of pastoralism: A stud">{{cite journal |last1=Murthy |first1=M.L.K. |date=1993-02-01 |title=Ethnohistory of pastoralism: A study of Kuruvas and Gollas |journal=Studies in History |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=33–41 |doi=10.1177/025764309300900102 |s2cid=161569571 |quote=section: Kingship and Kshatriyization of the Pastoral Communities}}</ref><ref name="Dhere 2011 237, 243, 247, 248">{{cite book |last=Dhere |first=Ramchandra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jUeeAgAAQBAJ |title=Rise of a Folk God: Vitthal of Pandharpur South Asia Research |publisher=Oxford University Press, 2011 |year=2011 |isbn=9780199777648 |pages=237, 243, 247, 248 |quote=Like Vitthal’s original Gavli, Dhangar, Golla, and Kuruba worshipers, several royal families who enhanced the magnificence of Vitthal’s worship are also called “Yadavas”. Among the kings with extant inscriptions connected with Vitthal of Pandharpur, Krsna, Mahadeva, and Ramcandra of Devgiri were all from the Yadava dynasty, while the Hoysala king Vir Somesvar was from a family that claimed to be Yadava. The history of South India shows clearly that all the southern royal dynasties who arose from pastoralist, cowherd groups gained Kshatriya status by claiming to be Moon lineage Kshatriyas, by taking Yadu as their ancestor, and by continually keeping alive their pride in being "Yadavas". Many dynasties in South India, from the Pallavas to the Yadavarayas, were originally members of pastoralist, cowherd groups and belonged to Kuruba lineages.}}</ref>
* [[Ramachandra of Devagiri]] (1271-1311), king of the Seuna (Yadava) dynasty.<ref name="Saki 1998 1432">{{cite book |last=Saki |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ywNvAAAAMAAJ&q=seuna+kuruba |title=Making History Karnataka's People and Their Past |date=1998 |publisher=Vimukthi Prakashana |page=143 |asin=B00069WZK8}}</ref><ref name="Rodrigues2">{{cite news |last=Rodrigues |first=Tensing |date=2017-08-26 |title=The Yadavaraya |location=Goa |url=https://thenavhindtimes.in/article/the-yadavaraya |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201021220346/https://thenavhindtimes.in/article/the-yadavaraya |archive-date=2020-10-21}}</ref><ref name="Ethnohistory of pastoralism: A stud2">{{cite journal |last1=Murthy |first1=M.L.K. |date=1993-02-01 |title=Ethnohistory of pastoralism: A study of Kuruvas and Gollas |journal=Studies in History |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=33–41 |doi=10.1177/025764309300900102 |quote=section: Kingship and Kshatriyization of the Pastoral Communities |s2cid=161569571}}</ref>
*[[Sangolli Rayanna]], 18th-century freedom fighter and a warrior who fought the British East India Company in South India.<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Sangolli Rayanna and the rise of caste heroes |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2016/dec/06/sangolli-rayanna-and-the-rise-of-caste-heroes-1546119.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20201112222713/https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2016/dec/06/sangolli-rayanna-and-the-rise-of-caste-heroes-1546119.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-11-12|date=2016-12-06}}</ref>
* [[Kaka Nayaka]], a legendary leader after whom the Kakanakote forest is named.<ref>{{cite news |author= |title='Kakana Kote' as a tribute to Lokesh |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/%60Kakana-Kote-as-a-tribute-to-Lokesh/article14764556.ece|archive-url=https://archive.today/20201112222519/https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/%60Kakana-Kote-as-a-tribute-to-Lokesh/article14764556.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-11-12|date=2007-05-17}}</ref>
* [[Ahilya Bai Holkar]]

==Politics ==
* [[Adagur H. Vishwanath]], former [[Karnataka Council of Ministers|minister in the Government of Karnataka]], former [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) from Karnataka and current member of [[Karnataka Legislative Council]].<ref name="archive.is">{{cite news |title=While waiting for council entry, Vishwanath aims at Kuruba push |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2020/feb/21/while-waiting-for-council-entry-vishwanath-aims-at-kuruba-push-2106413.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201114171021/https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2020/feb/21/while-waiting-for-council-entry-vishwanath-aims-at-kuruba-push-2106413.html |archive-date=2020-11-14 |access-date=2020-02-21}}</ref>
* [[Bandaru Dattatreya]], [[Governor]] of the State of [[Haryana]]. He was the [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha|Member of Parliament Lok Sabha]] from [[Secunderabad]] between 1991-2004 and 2014-2019. He was a former [[Union Council of Ministers|minister in the Government of India]] under multiple administrations.<ref name="archive.is2">{{cite news |title=While waiting for council entry, Vishwanath aims at Kuruba push |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2020/feb/21/while-waiting-for-council-entry-vishwanath-aims-at-kuruba-push-2106413.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201114171021/https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2020/feb/21/while-waiting-for-council-entry-vishwanath-aims-at-kuruba-push-2106413.html |archive-date=2020-11-14 |access-date=2020-02-21}}</ref>
* [[Bandeppa Kashempur]], former minister in the Government of Karnataka.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rapprochement possible in JD(S) if rebels are sincere to Kumaranna: Bandeppa |url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/in-other-news/200616/rapprochement-possible-in-jds-if-rebels-are-sincere-to-kumaranna-bandeppa.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114172631/https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/in-other-news/200616/rapprochement-possible-in-jds-if-rebels-are-sincere-to-kumaranna-bandeppa.html |archive-date=14 November 2020}}</ref>
* [[B. K. Parthasarathi]], Member of Parliament from [[Andhra Pradesh]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Ruckus at K Siddaramaiah's meeting |url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/politics/140119/ruckus-at-k-siddaramaiahs-meeting.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201114233633/https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/politics/140119/ruckus-at-k-siddaramaiahs-meeting.html |archive-date=2020-11-14 |access-date=2019-01-14}}</ref>
* [[Channaiah Odeyar]] former Member of Parliament, [[Davanagere district]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Aravind |first=H. M. |date=6 April 2019 |title=Karnataka: Congress tries new caste matrix to win back old constituency - Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/elections/lok-sabha-elections-2019/karnataka/news/karnataka-congress-tries-new-caste-matrix-to-win-back-old-constituency/articleshow/68750743.cms |access-date=2019-08-24 |language=en |newspaper=The Times of India}}</ref>
* [[C. S. Shivalli]], former minister in the Government of Karnataka.<ref>{{cite news |author= |date=2018-12-23 |title=Congress tries to balance regional, caste equations with eight new faces |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2018/dec/23/cong-tries-to-balance-regional-caste-equations-with-8-new-faces-1915376.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201113015547/https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2018/dec/23/cong-tries-to-balance-regional-caste-equations-with-8-new-faces-1915376.html |archive-date=2020-11-13}}</ref>
* [[D. K. Naikar]], former [[Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee]] President (1995-1996), was a Member of Parliament from [[Dharwad North Lok Sabha constituency|Dharwad North constituency]] in Karnataka. He was elected to the [[7th Lok Sabha|7th]], [[8th Lok Sabha|8th]], [[9th Lok Sabha|9th]] and [[10th Lok Sabha]].
* [[H. M. Revanna]], former minister in the Government of Karnataka and current member of Karnataka Legislative Council.<ref>{{cite news |title=While waiting for council entry, Vishwanath aims at Kuruba push |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2020/feb/21/while-waiting-for-council-entry-vishwanath-aims-at-kuruba-push-2106413.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201114171021/https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2020/feb/21/while-waiting-for-council-entry-vishwanath-aims-at-kuruba-push-2106413.html |archive-date=2020-11-14 |access-date=2020-02-21}}</ref>
*[[Kollur Mallappa]], first President of [[Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee|Hyderabad Pradesh Congress Committee]], prior to the merger of [[Hyderabad State]] into Andhra Pradesh. He was Member of Parliament from [[Raichur Lok Sabha constituency|Raichur]], Karnataka and [[Rajya Sabha]] MP for 3 terms. He was mentor of late Indian Prime Minister [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]].<ref>{{cite news |author= |date=2004-10-25 |title=Kollur Mallappa passes awa |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/kollur-mallappa-passes-away/article27687438.ece |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201113015342/https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/kollur-mallappa-passes-away/article27687438.ece |archive-date=2020-11-13}}</ref>
*[[K. S. Eshwarappa]], former minister in the Government of Karnataka, former [[Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka]] and former [[Leader of the Opposition]] in the Karnataka Legislative Council.<ref>{{cite news |title=KS Eshwarappa, Siddaramaiah join hands, want caste census report published |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/ks-eshwarappa-siddaramaiah-join-hands-want-caste-census-report-published/articleshow/78743105.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114172205/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/ks-eshwarappa-siddaramaiah-join-hands-want-caste-census-report-published/articleshow/78743105.cms |archive-date=14 November 2020}}</ref>
*[[Kuruva Gorantla Madhav]], former Member of Parliament from Andhra Pradesh.<ref>{{cite news |title=Gorantla Madhav has the last laugh! |url=https://www.greatandhra.com/politics/andhra-news/gorantla-madhav-has-the-last-laugh-95851 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114173050/https://www.greatandhra.com/politics/andhra-news/gorantla-madhav-has-the-last-laugh-95851 |archive-date=14 November 2020}}</ref>
* [[Malagundla Sankaranarayana|Malagundla SankaraNarayana]], former Minister for Roads & Buildings in Andhra Pradesh.<ref>{{cite news |date=2022-02-04 |title=Minister Sankar Narayana Slams TDP MLA Balakrishna |url=https://telugu.oneindia.com/news/andhra-pradesh/minister-sankar-narayana-slams-tdp-mla-balakrishna-resign-311764.html |work=[[Oneindia]]}}</ref>
* [[M. D. Nataraj]], former member of Karnataka Legislative Council and the son-in-law of [[D. Devaraj Urs|Devaraj Urs]].<ref>{{cite news |author= |date=2017-12-07 |title=How an ex-K'taka CM's son-in-law formed a KGB-like brigade to protect Indira Gandhi |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/women-many-shades-salma-speaks-her-new-book-curse-stories-137468 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201113015720/https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/women-many-shades-salma-speaks-her-new-book-curse-stories-137468 |archive-date=2020-11-13}}</ref>
* [[Siddaramaiah]], [[Chief Minister of Karnataka]].<ref>{{cite news |author= |date=2018-03-22 |title=Siddaramaiah in fix after 37 Hindu castes including his own Kuruba community demand 'minority' status |url=https://www.firstpost.com/politics/siddaramaiah-in-fix-after-37-hindu-castes-including-his-own-kuruba-community-demand-minority-status-4400753.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201113014842/https://www.firstpost.com/politics/siddaramaiah-in-fix-after-37-hindu-castes-including-his-own-kuruba-community-demand-minority-status-4400753.html |archive-date=2020-11-13}}</ref>
* [[V. L. Patil]], former minister in the Government of Karnataka, industrialist and a freedom fighter.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bijapur |first=Naushad |title=Vivekrao Patil the dark horse in Belagavi |url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/151226/nation-current-affairs/article/vivekrao-patil-dark-horse-belagavi |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201114165629/https://www.deccanchronicle.com/151226/nation-current-affairs/article/vivekrao-patil-dark-horse-belagavi |archive-date=2020-11-14 |access-date=2015-12-26}}</ref>

==Film actors==
* [[Kalathapasvi Rajesh]]
* [[Karibasavaiah]]
* [[Duniya Vijay]]
* [[Aishwarya Arjun]]

==Others==
* [[Belli Lalitha]], Indian folk singer and founder of Telangana Kala Samithi.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://feminisminindia.com/2018/03/02/belli-lalitha-telangana-resistance/ |title=Belli Lalitha: The Nightingale Of The Telangana Resistance |first=Manohar |last=Boda |date=2 March 2018 |work=feminismindia.com |access-date=2020-06-30}}</ref>
* [[Kancha Ilaiah]], Indian political theorist, writer and activist.<ref>{{cite book |last=Illiah |first=Kancha |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DpSHAwAAQBAJ |title=Post-Hindu India A Discourse in Dalit-Bahujan, Socio-Spiritual and Scientific Revolution |date=2009-11-17 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=9788132104339}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Kuruba]]
[[Category:Lists of Indian people by community]]

List of Kurubas - Revision history

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