Basavakalyana Fort is located in the Basavakalyana area of Bidar district in the state of Karnataka. Basavakalyana Fort was earlier known as Kalyana Fort. Its historical significance is that the capital of the Chalukyas was shifted from Manyakheta to Kalyana in the 10th century.
Basavakalyana Fort is about 742.2 km from Bangalore, about 70 km from Bidar and 3 km from Basavakalyanapatnam.
Basavakalyana is famous for the saints who made it their home. Many devotees like Basaveshwara, Allama Prabhu, Akka-Mahadevi, Channabasavanna and Siddrama are involved in Basavakalyana. Here you can also see some monuments like Chalukyan fort, some caves and other historical and religious importance.
Basavakalyana, the royal capital of the Western Chalukya (Kalyani Chalukya) dynasty from 1050 to 1195, has its fort. Somesvara I (1041-1068) made Basavakalyana his capital to separate the Kalyani Chalukyas from the Badami Chalukyas.
Integral to the town of Basavakalyana, this fort is famous as the karmabhumi of Basavanna (the founder of the Lingayat community) and hundreds of other Saranas (saints of the Lingayat community).
With its fort it was the center of a great social and religious movement due to the social reformer Basaveshwara. It became a place of learning. Especially Basaveshwara fought against the caste system and orthodoxy in Hinduism.
