Today I got confirmation on my little dark side knowledge from this Link as in South India previously Brahmin know by his clothes and design…. More over lower cast Brahmin gave tax for clothing their ladies…see the Link given below…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_Tax
Storyline of a movie is hereunder…
Nangeli lived in the early 19th century at Cherthala in the erstwhile princely state of Travancore (Kerala) in India and supposedly, cut off her breasts in an effort to protest against the caste-based breast tax.
The village officer of Travancore, came to her home to survey her breasts and clothes alongwith collect the breast tax.
Nangeli revolted against the harassment; cutting off her breasts and presenting them to him in a plantain leaf. She died soon from loss of blood. Nangeli’s husband, Chirukandan, seeing her mutilated body was overcome by grief and jumped into her funeral pyre – in what was supposedly the first male sati.
Following the death of Nangeli, a series of people’s movements were set off.
Soon the place she lived had come to be called as Mulachiparambu (meaning place of the breasted woman).
Here I produced the link of the said ploted film trailer.. originally the film is in Malayalam…
Jigar Mehta / Jaigishya
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