A spinning wheel used in India and South Asia for spinning thread or yarn from cotton or wool.
From Hindi चरखा (charkha), derived from Sanskrit चक्र (chakra) meaning 'wheel.' The word traveled westward through trade routes as Europeans encountered this technology.
The charka became a symbol of Indian independence—Gandhi famously used hand-spinning as peaceful protest against British textile imports, making this humble wheel a tool of revolution!
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