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The historical dress of the Nair woman was the mundu, as well as a cloth that covered the upper body. The mundum neryathum, a garment that roughly resembles the sari, had later become the traditional dress of the Nair women. [56] [63] The dress consisted of a cloth tied around the waist as well as a cloth covering the breast, and worn without a ...
[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. This led to increasing violence in the 1820s against Nadar women, and also the burning of schools and churches.
Nair woman wearing a mundum neriyatum, painting by Raja Ravi Varma A man wearing mundu and melmundu. The mundu (Malayalam: muṇṭŭ; pronounced) is a garment worn around the waist in the Indian states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, the Lakshadweep archipelago, and the Indian Ocean island nation of Maldives.
A Reclining Nair lady is a 1902 painting by the Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma. [1] The painting features a recumbent Nair woman, [2] [3] with a book open in front of her while attended by a maid. [2] Varma draw this painting inspired from Edward Manet's 1863 painting Olympia.
Nair lady Adorning Her Hair is an 1873 painting by Raja Ravi Varma. The painting depicts a domestic scene in which a Nair woman adorning her hair with a garland of flowers in front of a mirror. The painting was notable for being the first major award-winning work that Ravi Varma had completed.
Women dressed in Mundu Raja Ravi Verma. Mundum neriyatum (Malayalam: മുണ്ട് നേരിയത്; settu-mundu or mundu-set) is the traditional clothing of women in Kerala, a state in southwestern India. It is the oldest remnant of the ancient form of the sari which covered only the lower part of the body.
Nair women and men enjoyed the highest privileges in society, including the ability to divorce their partners at will, akin to practices in some modern European cultures. [ citation needed ] The Sambandham system had led to many controversies and misconceptions associating with polyandry.
For example, the dog — an animal regarded in Indian culture to be unclean — correlates to the European idea of domesticity. [12] The figure of his daughter, believed to be modeled from a photograph, [12] is dressed as was typical for an upper-class Nair, but the woman's stance is evocative of European styles. [13]