INTRIGUING QUESTIONS ABOUT SOCIETAL IMAPCT- A STRONG RESPONSE TO A DELICATE ISSUE -THE APPLICATION OF TENETS OF SRIVAISHNAVISM IN MEDIEVAL SOUTH INDIAN SOCIETY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HOYSALAS

Topical prologue -Medieval South Indian Society projects a conglomeration of various ethnic, religious, linguistic and cultural collectivities. It was also quite complex in terms of severance in each one of these collectivities and their historical and socio cultural specificities. A discussion of these patterns focused on continuity and change as well as fruition of new specificities in Medieval Indian society. The rise of Bhakti doctrine accentuated some of these socio-religious, cultural, and economic differences. It pronounced values of secularism socialism and democracy as its main ideals .