Breast Tax

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

a discriminatory "breast tax" 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 Nangeli

           

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 ...

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... 

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.

Yes indeed, say you heard it here first 

It does sound void of reality.