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PUNKAH (Hindostani pankha)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 657 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PUNKAH (
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Hindostani pankha)  , strictly a
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fan . In its
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original sense the
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punkah is a portable fan, made from the
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leaf of the
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palmyra; but the word has come to be used in a
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special sense by Anglo-
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Indians for a large swinging fan, fixed to the
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ceiling, and pulled by a
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coolie during the hot
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weather . The date of this invention is not known, but it was
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familiar to the
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Arabs as
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early as the 8th
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century, though it does not seem to have come into
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common use in
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India before the end of the 18th century . Of
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recent years it has largely been supplanted by the electric fan in
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barracks and other large buildings .

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