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The politics of Karnataka’s ‘mutts’

Congress president Sonia Gandhi will visit Karnataka for the first time in three years later this week and media reports say that she is expected to participate in the birthday celebration of Shivakumara Swami, the head of the influential Sree Siddaganga Mutt in Tumkur. If that happens, it will only serve to highlight the importance of mutts (or monasteries)...

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