Charka

Il charka è un tipo di ruota per filare usata in India per la filatura del cotone.

Charka
Gandhi fila con la charka nel 1946
Il charka nella bandiera indiana nel 1931

Il charka è un tipo di ruota per filare usata in India per la filatura del cotone.

Il Mahatma Gandhi lo consigliò per l'uso casalingo allo scopo di boicottare le stoffe inglesi.

In hindi carkh, derivato dal persiano charkha, diminutivo di charkh, lana, dall'antico persiano *carka.

Bibliografia

  • Tara Gandhi Battacharjee, Charkha, Il Canneto Editore, Genova, 2013.
  • Mark Shepard, Gandhi today: a report on Mahatma Gandhi's successors, Shepard Publications, 1987, ISBN 978-0-938497-04-2.

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