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A well-planned divisive misleading narrative is being circulated to divide people on the basis of caste. For past few years misinformation related to a fictional topic #Mulakaram or #BreastTax spreading with help of western media (1/11)
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Hate & Misinformation spreader "The Dalit Voice" said during the Travancore Kingdom, Dalit/OBC women were not "allowed" to cover their breasts unless they paid a tax. The fee was determined by the size of their breasts. This is absolute #Fake narrative and fictional .(2/11)
The News about "breast tax" is being circulated occasionally since 2016, when Anti-India BBC reporter Divya Arya reported on a series of paintings by artist Murali T on Nangeli. But magically original blogpost of his deleted after .(3/11)
#Brahmanical patriarchy is so painful & violent. During the Travancore Kingdom, Dalit/OBC women were not allowed to cover their breasts unless they paid a tax. The fee was determined by the size of their breasts. This was made to humiliate them and remind them of their low status
The tax had been imposed by the Brahmin king of the erstwhile state of Travancore; one of the 550 princely states that existed in British ruled India in the year 1803.
Royal officials would travel door to door, collecting this heinous breast tax from lower caste women.....
Royal officials would travel door to door, collecting this heinous breast tax from lower caste women.....
There are thousands of women forced to follow such customs in the society but only a few of them have enough courage to stand up against such practices.
Nangeli, one such woman, who belonged to Cherthala in the central region of Kerala protested against the breast tax...
Nangeli, one such woman, who belonged to Cherthala in the central region of Kerala protested against the breast tax...
