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Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame

A thread with images of pankhawallas – people who operated handheld fans and large curtain fans by pulling on ropes so colonizers in India/South Asia wouldn’t feel too hot.

A TikTok with the pankhawalla images

A thread about memsahibs and their journals.

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