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- Title
KEEPING INDIA COOL.
- Authors
Datta, Arunima
- Abstract
The article discusses the employment of punkahwallahs or servants that operate punkhas or manual fans by households in British India. Topics explored include the acknowledgment of these servants in travel writings, memoirs, and even novels, the initial selection of prisoners to serve as punkahwallahs before some households opted to employ deaf men, and the way manufacturers of electric fans used complaints over sleeping punkahwallahs in their advertisements.
- Subjects
HOUSEHOLD employees; PUNKAS; HISTORY of India; EMPLOYMENT of deaf people; FANS (Machinery); VENTILATION equipment; BRITISH occupation of India, 1765-1947
- Publication
History Today, 2019, Vol 69, Issue 9, p54
- ISSN
0018-2753
- Publication type
Article