↑ N. Laxminarayana Rao and Dr. S. C. Nandinath have claimed the Chalukyas were Kannadigas (Kannada speakers) and very much the natives of Karnataka (Kamath 2001, p. 57)
↑ The Chalukyas were Kannadigas (D.C.Sircar in Mahajan V.D., 1960, Reprint 2007, Ancient India, Chand and Company, New Delhi, p. 690, ISBN 81-219-0887-6)
↑ Natives of Karnataka (Hans Raj, 2007, Advanced history of India: From earliest times to present times, Part-1, Surgeet publications, New Delhi, p. 339
↑ The Chalukyas hailed from Karnataka (John Keay, 2000, p. 168)
↑ Quote:"They belonged to Karnataka country and their mother tongue was Kannada" (Sen 1999, 360)
↑ The Chalukyas of Badami seem to be of indigenous origin (Kamath 2001, p. 58)
↑ Jayasimha and Ranaraga, the first members of the Chalukya family were possibly employees of the Kadambas in the northern part of the Kadamba Kingdom (Fleet [in Kanarese Dynasties, p. 343] in Moraes, 1931, pp. 51-52)
↑ Pulakesi I must have been an administrative official of the northern Kadamba territory centered in Badami (Moraes 1931, pp. 51-52)
↑ The Chalukya base was Badami and Aihole (Thapar 2003, p. 328)
↑ Inscriptional evidence proves the Chalukyas were native Kannadigas (Karmarkar, 1947, p. 26)