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Revision as of 09:40, 13 October 2017 by Renamed user ExPsittacine (talk | contribs) (Remove all newspaper sources; retain + add sources that are possibly reliable.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Breast Tax or Mulakkaram was a tax imposed on lower caste Hindu women if they wanted to cover their chests, including their breasts in public, in the Kingdom of Travancore, now part of Kerala.
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- Journal of Kerala Studies. University of Kerala. 2011. p. 93. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
One of the many social ills that is worth mentioning to high- light the plight of a person in those times is the breast tax or 'Mulakkaram". The lower caste women were proscribed by their high caste masters from covering their upper part of the …
- Kattackal, Jacob (1990). Comparative Religion. Oriental Institute of Religious Studies, India. p. 144.
'low-caste' men had to pay a 'head-tax', and the 'low-caste women' had to pay a 'breast tax' ('tala-karam' and 'mula-karam') to the government treasury.