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NO,Never, lingayat are not Hindu.lingayat have founder BASWANNA in 12th sentury, form this religion to distroy 'warnasram dharm so called brahmandharm.Lingayat not belive in swarg,narak,next life birth,tempal's etc in which Hindu belives. lingayat have 'dharmgrath' wachan granth ,Hindu haven't. there are so many difarances beetwin lingayat & Hindu.from 1872 to 1931 british counts lingayat as a dharm other than Hindu.Baswnna perform lingayat religion for those who don't have intery in tempals i.e. mulnivasi (at that time only two varnas are in India i.e. brahman's & shudra's).Before 1908 brahman donot called Hindu him self,

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