[11] Uneasy with their social status, a large number of Nadar climbers embraced Christianity,[12] and started to wear "long cloths," strengthened by their new belief system, which offered equal rights to all men (and women).
In 1813, Colonel John Munro, British dewan in the Travancore court, issued an order granting permission to women converted to Christianity to wear upper cloth.
[2][1] The women were not satisfied, continuing to fight for the right to wear upper cloth "like any other woman in the higher castes,"[1] and preferring breast-clothing in the Nair-style.
[13] In 1829, the Travancore queen, Gowri Parvati Bayi, issued yet another proclamation, which denied the right of Nadar women to wear upper cloths.
[19] The CBSE in December 2016 issued a circular to all 19,000 affiliated schools under it asking that a section 'Caste Conflict and Dress Change' – a chapter that included the Channar revolt – be omitted from the curriculum with effect from 2017.