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What is a chawl?

What is a chawl? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
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They lived together in a room apartment in a chawl owned by the local touts.
The chawl retained the old sense of community lost to people rehoused in multistory blocks.
He has not forgotten the crowded chawl he lived in before he got his first break.
It's an older vision of redevelopment: this chawl was built over 30 years ago.
I remember very clearly how the atmosphere changed when Raju Korde took me into his chawl.
Five years ago, when she was twenty, Greeta and her family moved into a three-by-four meter room in a chawl, a tenement where each family occupies a room with no bathroom nor kitchen.

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