Rosedown State Historic Site - This is the original punkah. People have used punkahs since 500BC in India. A punkah is a fan that is usually handmade and connected to the ceiling.
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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power": Punkah - the hand operated ceiling fans of Colonial India and a reminder of how British
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Barburdar, punkah wallah or fan bearer Our beautiful pictures are available as Framed Prints, Photos, Wall Art and Photo Gifts
Tarikh-i-Pakhtunkhwa - Punkah wallahs in action, British India, early 20th century. Postcard photo. A Punkah-wallahs were manual fan operators in India before the electric fan, who worked ceiling fan with a pulley
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