sentences:  There had been attempts to cause these various communities, of which the Deevaru are considered to be socially the lowest-ranked, to cohere politically but these had petered out by the 1980s.The Idiga were categorised as an Other Backwards Class (OBC) in the 1980s, when they constituted around 2.5 per cent of the population in Karnataka.Despite their low numbers, eleven Idiga people were elected as Members of the Legislative Assembly in the 1985 elections, making them the largest single OBC group in the Legislative Assembly of Karnataka.