Under 31st series of online exhibition, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya presented ‘Ganna Charakh’ of Aurangabad, Maharashtra, a traditional sugarcane crusher situated in Traditional Technology Park, open air exhibition of Manav Sangrahalaya has been presented online with its basic information and photographs and videos. About this exhibition, Dr Praveen Kumar Mishra, Director, IGRMS said, “The dawn of culture witnessed beginning of acquisition of technological knowledge by humankind. Beginning might be termed as simple in comparison to modern and advanced technologies, humankind has developed but when first tool will have been shaped and used by men, that beginning is still first and most important achievement in technological history of humankind.

 

Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya has made an effort to collect this objects related to traditional technology from various parts of the country to develop this exhibition. About Ganna Charakh, Dr Soma Kiro, Assistant Curator told that it is a traditional technology of Maharashtra for crushing sugarcane to collect juice.

 

The device consists of two upright cylindrical form of wooden wheel toothed structure (called locally Dulha & Dulhan) which is mounted upon horizontal frame called Pati, that serves as a gear to maintain uniform motion in crushing sugarcane. It is moved through a long wooden shaft (called-Ju) used as rotor with help of Bullock. The device is made of wood locally called ‘Marukh’.