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Breast Tax of Nangeli

Author Name: Niranjan Jha Showman | Format: Paperback | Genre : Others | Other Details

This is the story of a woman named Nangeli that has become symbolic of the struggle against Breast Tax of Kerala, India. Nangeli was born in a village named Mulachiparambu in the year 1805. This village comes in the town of Cherthala in the district of Alappuzha, the central region of the state of Kerala. Starting from the 18th century, the women of lower Hindu castes were not allowed to cover their breasts. It was the order of landowning Brahmin king of the Kingdom of Tranvancore in the state. And if, the woman wanted to cover her breast, she had to pay the tax to the king as per the size of her breast inspected by the village officer. Apart from covering breasts, lower-caste women had to pay tax for just having breasts.

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Niranjan Showman is a Languages Scientist and Technical Researcher from 25 years and he has taught more than one million students globally. He is the Award Winning author of more than hundred educational and fictional books at Amazon. He is one of the great-grandsons of the first President of India Dr. Rajendra Prasad (from adoption). He is a Public Figure, and globally - renowned Languages Trainer of French, Spanish, German, English, and Computer Science from twenty years. Niranjan Showman is an Entrepreneur and also works as a Filmmaker in India. Being founder and owner of Cromosys Corporation, a company located in Mumbai (India), his company is excelling in the fields of Education, Technology, Publication, Healthcare, and Filmmaking from past fifteen years. Niranjan Jha Showman's good-selling educational books and novels are appreciated worldwide. He has more than one million eBook buyers online, and more than one million learners have been educated from him. Many of his novels are critically acclaimed. He is also a political activist and founder of Vikaswadi Party in India. Niranjan Showman is the man who came from rags to riches, he who knows how to turn the table, and he, whom people call the man of Midas-touch, and Renaissance - man. He has observed lives from the Pandora of monkeys to the sanctuary of monks, not only down-to-earth but down-to-grave. He is a B. Com. graduate, and diploma holder in French, Spanish and German from America.

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