[16] The main goddess of the Devanga people is Sri Ramalinga Chowdeshwari Amman in the South Karnataka, Andhra and Tamil Nadu regions.
[17][4] In the Central and North Karnataka regions the main goddess of the Devanga people is Sri Banashankari Amma Temple.
[18] Around 1532, Devangas of the Godavari requested the Telugu poet Bhadralinga Kavi to write their kulapuranam, or mythological history.
[5] In 2004, the Devanga leaders of a small village in Belagur, Chitradurga district, Karnataka, fined and socially excluded ten families from the community for marrying people outside the caste.
[22] The decision was criticised and alleged to be unconstitutional[23] but a similar thing happened to five families in Shivani village, Ajjampura, Chikmagalur district in 2011.