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  • Punkah - Wikipedia
    A punkah, also pankha (Urdu: پَنکھا, Hindi: पंखा, paṅkhā), is a type of fan used since the early 6th century BC The word pankha originated from pankh, the wings of a bird which produce a current of air when flapped
  • Punkah: The Hand Operated Ceiling Fans of Colonial India
    Those who could afford had punkahs, or ceiling fans, that were swung with the help of a long string to produce a cooling draft A punkah was usually rectangular in shape and was made from cane, or a flat wooden frame covered with cloth
  • How Ceiling Fans Allowed Slaves to Eavesdrop on Plantation . . .
    For American slaveholders, assigning people (usually boys and men dressed in brown and red livery) to work the punkah cords during parties was a way to flaunt wealth
  • The punkah and its pullers: A short history | Servants Pasts
    Between colonial sleep and Indian labour, the history of punkah wallahs is buried Ritam Sengupta brings to light the long history of labour, law, and violence that this labouring group underwent in the long nineteenth century
  • The Sensu Punkah: A Ceiling Fan That Flaps Instead of . . .
    In South Asia, a similar fan existed for centuries and was called a punkah Made from plant fibers or fabric, it was essentially a plane of material hung vertically from the ceiling, and powered by a person tugging on a string
  • The Invisible Hands of Colonial Comfort: The Life and Labor . . .
    Among these essential but often invisible figures were the punkahwallahs—men whose sole duty was to manually operate large ceiling fans, or punkahs, to keep the air moving and their British employers cool in the stifling heat of the tropics
  • Punkah - hand operated Indian ceiling fan that kept the . . .
    The punkah, an elongated ceiling fan, was commonly used in the Indian subcontinent before the introduction of electric fans Air was generated by manually pulling the punkah using a pulley system Widely used during colonial times, there were many punkah makers and punkah wallahs—those who operated them for daily wages
  • Swinging Ceiling Fan | The Sensu Punkah
    The Sensu Punkah brings back the times of gentle, draft free ventilation Electronically controlled tranquil pendula blade movements let you experice ceiling fan ventilation like the ancient Maharajas and Pharaos
  • Punkahs, punkahwallahs, and White sahibs in Colonial India
    Punkah' is a colonial-era anglicisation of the Hindustani term pankha, which referred to handheld fans Punkah-pullers were made to work in deliberately uncomfortable conditions In colonial India, however, the term punkah came to refer to the large, rope-pulled, swinging fan hung from the ceiling
  • Fans that stopped the British from leaving India - DT Next
    They discovered a respite from the heat they had been longing for with the Asians – the punkah Discovered by the Iranians, the punkah, whose name was derived from the hand-held fan, stemmed from original inventions in the far east, where it was hot, and slavery was common





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