• Dr NISHAD A

Travancore form an irregular triangle of 7.091 square miles in the area at the extreme south-west of the Indian Peninsila form the Cape Comorin the province extends south wards along the western or Malabar Coast of India. In the early decades of the nineteenth century the most important social movement in Travancore, perhaps in the whole of south India ,was one for the right of women belonging to socially bank-ward classes to cover their bosome and wewear upper-clothes.In certain regions the tremor of the rebellion was rather severe, while in certain others its intensity was comparatively feeble. It cannot be denied that the revolt was wide-spread and the government of Travancore was alarmed at its extent, for it forced the British government to interfere in the matter, During this time British India had entered upon an era of reconstruction and national consciousness, whereas Travancore had relapsed into forty years of great disorder and upheaval which shattered its existing social structure and led to a reformation.

Travancore, Upper cloth, Nadar, kuppayam, London Missionary Society

"UPPER CLOTH MOVEMENT - AFORGOTTEN HISTORY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.462-466, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812876.pdf

"UPPER CLOTH MOVEMENT - AFORGOTTEN HISTORY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp462-466, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812876.pdf