Women's Movement: One and Unique Nanglei

The first talk about women's rights began in the United States in 1647. In that series, women from different countries of the world woke up. Be aware of your rights. One such was the French playwright and revolutionary woman Olympe the Gogs. She was active in women's rights. In 1793, the French government executed the woman's leader by hanging on the women's rights movement.

Even though women's rights could not be established through the assassination of the French playwright and revolutionary woman Olympe the Gogos, women from different countries of the world, however, became sufficiently aware of their rights. In this way, women struggled to establish their rights from their own position. Among the women who struggled to break the system of blindness, slavery, feminism, religious practices, notable were Margaret Brent, Margaret Lucas, Olympia the Goggs, Mary Wollstonecraft.

Then in 1880 Elizabeth Keddy Stanton, Lucretia Moto, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Angelina M. Grimm, Sarah M. Grimm became very active in the women's movement. However, 37 years before these women became active in the revolutionaries, women from a remote region of India woke up on their own rights. The name of this revolutionary woman is Nangeli. The woman explained in exchange for her life, 'Will my breast be kept uncovered or covered? Who is he that rules you?

In 1803 a ritual was introduced in the Kerala state of India. The king of Tribanku imposed a duty on the lower Hindu caste of this state. The name of this tax is 'Breast Tax', in the local language name 'Mulakkaram'.

At that time, the rule in that state was that only Hindu women, other than Brahmins, could not cover their breasts with cloth. Here only the Hindu women of the Brahmin class could cover their breasts with a piece of white cloth. Apart from this, the law of keeping the women of the rest of the Hindu class open in the breast was introduced in this state of the king of Tribanku. However, if a woman wanted to cover her breasts with clothes, she would have to pay tax or tax at a fixed rate depending on the size of her breasts.

A large part of the 'mulakkaram' or 'breast customs' used to be in the Padmanabav temple, the god of the kings of Trivankur. Nangeli, a woman from the Ezhwa community of Alappuzha, stood up against the Brahminical process of linking the Dalits to a lifetime of debt. In 1803, the brave woman covered the breast by showing the king's rule to the elderly.

The village collector demanded 'mulakkaram' or 'breast customs' from her as Nageli covered her breasts. But Nangeli refuses to pay 'mulakkaram' or 'breastfeeding'. But in protest of 'Mulakkaram' or 'Breastfeeding', Nanglei was outraged and cut his two breasts with sharp weapons and handed them over to the collector in a black cloth. The customs collector is shocked to see the cut breast.

Shortly after the breast was cut, Nungeli died of excess bleeding. During the funeral, Nangeli's husband jumped on his own. Since this incident, 'Mulakkaram' or 'Breastfeeding' has been tolerated. Although 'Mulakkaram' or 'Breastfeeding' is averse, women in South India have struggled to cover their breasts. Even the bloody riots have taken place.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, some Hindu women demanded the right to cover their upper breasts, while Hindu priests clarified that covering the upper body of women of low caste was un-religious. The riots took place in southern India in 1859. The purpose of the riots was to secure the rights of Hindu women to cover the upper body. In India, the riots are also known as 'cloth riots'.

On the other hand, the Women's Day is celebrated every year worldwide to commemorate the history of women's rights movement. In the state of Kerala, India is celebrated annually on Women's Day. Today, Nangeli is one of the unique and unique soldiers in the state in the struggle to earn the dignity of women of lower castes. Through her life, she established the honor of women of lower castes.