The law in question wasn’t abolished until 1924 — The tax on the breasts, or “Mulakkaram” in Malayalam, was a tax imposed on lower caste (Shudra) and the “untouchable” (Dalit) Hindu women by the kingdom of Travancore (in present-day Kerala in India) if they wanted to cover their breasts in public, according to Wikipedia. A tax on dignity The tax was doubly cruel…