Ganiga

{{short description|Hindu Religious caste}}

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Ganiga is a caste found in the state of Karnataka, India. They were originally oil pressers and also oil-mongers in the Mysore region of Karnataka.{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/when-a-welloiled-system-came-to-a-halt/article4216993.ece |url-access=subscription | title=When a well-oiled system came to a halt | work=The Hindu | date=19 December 2012 |access-date=2016-06-20 |last=Bageshree |first=S.}} They add the title Shetty to their name.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQ8IAQAAIAAJ&q=Shetti&pg=PA195 |title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ka'nara (2 pts.) |date=1883 |publisher=Government Central Press |language=en}}

Ganiga men used to wear sacred thread.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQ8IAQAAIAAJ&q=G%C3%A1nigs&pg=PA195 |title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ka'nara (2 pts.) |date=1883 |publisher=Government Central Press |language=en}} They hold themselves to be high class Vaishyas and did not eat food cooked by anyone other than Havyaka Brahmins.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQ8IAQAAIAAJ&q=G%C3%A1nigs&pg=PA195 |title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ka'nara (2 pts.) |date=1883 |publisher=Government Central Press |language=en}} They employed Havyaka Brahmins to perform their chief ceremonies and their religious teacher is the chief of smárta monastery at Sringeri and They belong to Kundapura Vyasaraja Peetham.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQ8IAQAAIAAJ&q=G%C3%A1nigs&pg=PA195 |title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ka'nara (2 pts.) |date=1883 |publisher=Government Central Press |language=en}} They are classified as OBC in India's system of positive discrimination.{{cite web | url=http://www.ncbc.nic.in/User_Panel/GazetteResolution.aspx?Value=mPICjsL1aLsThxqt53NPf0ggPwu7BzPqgy3u3lupJmQLsT8%2fMjBlhiG%2fb0Het9uX |date=9 Jan 2015 |title=Central List of OBCs - State: Karnataka |publisher=National Commission for Backward Classes |access-date=2018-01-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112082853/http://www.ncbc.nic.in/User_Panel/GazetteResolution.aspx?Value=mPICjsL1aLsThxqt53NPf0ggPwu7BzPqgy3u3lupJmQLsT8%2fMjBlhiG%2fb0Het9uX |archive-date= Jan 12, 2018 }}