The story of ‘Her Revolt’ (the Upper Cloth Revolt) reveals a complex set of issues associated with theological, anthropological, historical and cultural forces. Humiliation, enforcement of semi-nakedness and dishonour the image of God were some of the theological and psychological ways the caste society used for humiliating the outcaste society. At the same time, through a womanist reading of her story highlights that Jesus Christ revealed through the suffering faces of the Shanar women enabled them to become the owners of imago Christi.

Rev. Dr. Prinstone Ben is an ordained presbyter of the Church of South India, South Kerala Diocese. He served as pastor and district chairman in South Kerala Diocese and missionary in Gujarat State. He was a teaching faculty at Kerala United Theological Seminary, Trivandrum and FFRRC, Kottayam and the Dean of Missiology at the Union Biblical Seminary, Pune. Moreover, he served as the Director of the Department of Pastoral Concerns, CSI Synod. He finished his BD from KUT Seminary Trivandrum; MTh from UTC Bangalore; MATS from McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago; and ThM and PhD from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Currently he works for CSI South Kerala Diocese as the Joint Signatory.