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

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