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It's not "tactless drivel" to accurately state what actually happened. The British in colonial India were a highly privileged class, and they did a lot worse t
by 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y ago
It's not "tactless drivel" to accurately state what actually happened. The British in colonial India were a highly privileged class, and they did a lot worse than just making their punkahwallahs sweat.
- exhilaration 7y agoIs punkahwallahs an actual term? Asking as an ABCD.
- zipwitch 7y agoAerial Board of Control? :-) (Kipling also wrote SF short stories, set in a universe with the aforementioned organization as a world government, for example "As Easy As A.B.C." (1912).) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_Board_of_Control https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_Board_of_Control
- Angostura 7y agoIt is. See also Chaiwallah, Dhobiwallah etc
- Freak_NL 7y agoSeems so: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/punkahwallah#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/punkahwallah#English I remember hearing it for the first time watching reruns of It Ain't Half Hot Mum.
- amingilani 7y agoAs someone in Pakistan, I can tell you that it is a term but doesn't necessarily need to have been documented. If someone does something as a trade, you append -waala to their trade and call them by that. So, if you see someone driving a tuk-tuk, or rickshaw as they're known in Pakistan, you refer to the driver as a rickshaw-waala. A chai seller becomes a chai-waala, a fruit seller becomes a fruit-waala, and so on.