The Vokkaligara Sangha was founded in 1906 in Bangalore City and was registered in 1907 under the Societies Registration Act in erstwhile Mysore State. The main objectives of the Sangha are to promote social, cultural and educational aspirations of agricultural community. It is being managed by the elected members representing the entire agricultural community of Karnataka State. During the pre-independence period, there was sufficient academic colleges particularly in cities in Mysore State. Therefore, the Sangha started a dormitary type of 'Vokkaligara Sangha Hostel' for the benefit of rural agricultural students and others who would come for academic education in the city of Bangalore. After independence, greater awakening took place in all the fields including education. In addition, in 1957, the Greater Karnataka was formed by ceding some backward areas of Maharastra, Hyderabad, Tamil Nadu and later on Coorg, to the Mysore State. On account of these factors, there was larger number of influx of students into the academic institutions, resulting in decreased opportunities to the educational aspirants of agricultural community.

Therefore, during the past three decades, the Sangha established several academic institutions in most of the disciplines in the main campus at V. V. Puram which is located in the heart of Bangalore city; a sattelite campus for basic medical sciences at Banashankari about 4 kilometers away from V. V. Puram and another sattelite campus at Sreegandada Kaval in the Western out-skirts of Bangalore city up to now, 14 educational institutions have been established.