Punkah wallah

A Punkha with cord, Takhat Vilas, Mehrangarh Fort Palace, Jodhpur.

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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[1] "punkahwallah". Wiktionary. Retrieved 10 January 2017.

[2] Bridge, Adrian (20 March 2018). "Michael Portillo discovers India's most beautiful train journeys". Daily Telegraph.

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