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In India, a punkah wallah or punkahwallah (Hindi: पङ्खावाला, paṅkhāvālā) is a manual fan operator.[1] A punkah is a type of ceiling fan used in the Indian subcontinent before the electric fan.[2] The punkhawallah was the servant who worked it, often using a pulley system. The word pankha originated from pankh, the wings of a bird which produce a draft when flapped.
In modern use, a person selling, repairing or making fans, both handheld and electric, would also be known colloquially as a punkha wala, since the term means fan guy or the guy with the fans.
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- ↑ "punkahwallah". Wiktionary. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
- ↑ Bridge, Adrian (20 March 2018). "Michael Portillo discovers India's most beautiful train journeys". Daily Telegraph.
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