Breast Tax

The story of a lower caste woman who cut her breasts to protest against

a discriminatory [size=10pt]"breast tax"[/size] in British ruled India

is being revived by an artist wants to recognise her sacrifice.

An artist is behind a project to revive the story of [size=11pt]Nangeli[/size]

           

The village Nangeli comes from is called Mulachhipuram :

OR the land of the woman with breasts .

named to remember Nangeli's great sacrifice against the breast-tax !!

This home now stands there 100 years later 

             

Fascinating and creepy.  ::

It begs the question, did it do any good? I read this whole article, and did a little Googling and couldn't find anything about when they changed the law/tax.

Makes me thinking, surely there was a better way? Apparently it got attention, and now she is being revered, hundreds of years later, but really, was that worth it? Apparently her husband didn't think so ...

http://gnomemag.com/breast-tax-in-ancient-india/

Such a humiliating repression of a vivacious chapter in Indian history

can be blamed on the dominating Brahmins in the Indian society  :-[

This has to be fiction !

Kwami ancestors was her neighbour !

I will wait for him to post on this thread... 

[quote author=ketchim link=topic=105486.msg706190#msg706190 date=1469816715]
This has to be fiction ! Kwami ancestors was her neighbour ! I will wait for him to post on this thread... [/quote]

I'm still wondering if this is real. And did hit happen recently? I don't see a date for this, it's so strange what people will do to themselves just to get their point across, I wonder what she felt like,

If I was her husband, I'm not sorry, but a divorce would be coming. If I had a woman who cut her own breast off, I'd be so sure as to what else she wouldn't care about cutting off.

[quote author=TRINIDADDY link=topic=105384.msg706188#msg706188 date=1469816137]
Yeah, your link was where I first heard of that strange law. I'd never heard of this law existing before (im still skeptical), but it's still a fascinating story:
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Yes indeed, say you heard it here first  8)

It does sound void of reality.