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This robbed me off my sleep
Last night, I was searching for something to read. Something out of the ordinary everyday knowledge. It was a mistake. Certain knowledge can be quite burdensome as I stumbled on the Breast Tax called Mulakaram.
This is one of man's inhumanities to man in the name of religion and culture that will shock anybody to the marrows.
In the 19th Century India, the Breast Tax (Mulakkaram) was a tax imposed on the lower caste (Shudra) and untouchable (Dalit) Hindu women by the Kingdom of Tranvancore ( Kerala) if they wanted to cover their breasts in public, and it was in place until 1924.
