[8][9][7] She died soon from loss of blood[7] and her husband Chirukandan, seeing her mutilated body was overcome by grief and jumped into her funeral pyre.
[4] Historian Manu S. Pillai says both men and women had poll tax called talakkaram and mulakkaram, respectively.
[13] "Mulakkaram" was a term to distinguish female taxpayers from males, and "the tax was not based on the size of the breast or its attractiveness, as Nangeli's storytellers will claim, but was one standard rate charged from women".
Victorian standards of morality penetrated into the society decades later via the British colonialists, which led to subsequent class-struggles for the right of the lower caste to wear upper cloth.
[7] He believes Nangeli might have protested against an oppressive tax regime that was imposed upon all lower castes, "when Nangeli stood up, squeezed to the extremes of poverty by a regressive tax system, it was a statement made in great anguish about the injustice of the social order itself".