Editing Chapati (section)

==History==
{{see also|Roti|Manda roti|Paratha|Kulcha|Puri (food)|Bhatoora|Bhakri|Khakhra| Naan}}
Chapati is a form of ''[[roti]]'' or ''rotta'' (bread). The words are often used interchangeably. The word ''chapat'' ({{Langx|mr|चापट}}) means "slap" or "flat", describing the traditional method of forming round pieces of thin dough by slapping the dough between the wetted palms of the hands. With each slap, the piece of dough is rotated. 

The word ''chapati'' is noted in the 16th-century document ''[[Ain-i-Akbari]]''  by [[Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak]], [[vizier]] of [[Mughal Emperor]] [[Akbar]].<ref name=origin>[http://persian.packhum.org/persian/main?url=pf%3Ffile%3D00702051%26ct%3D50 Of Bread] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211092218/http://persian.packhum.org/persian/main?url=pf%3Ffile%3D00702051%26ct%3D50 |date=11 December 2008 }} ''[[Ain-i-Akbari]]'', by [[Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak]]. English tr. by [[Heinrich Blochmann]] and Colonel Henry Sullivan Jarrett, 1873–1907. [[Asiatic Society of Bengal|The Asiatic Society of Bengal]], [[Calcutta]], Volume I, Chap. 26, page 61.</ref>

Chapatis are one of the most common forms of wheat bread, a [[staple food]] in the Indian subcontinent. The carbonized wheat grains discovered at the excavations at [[Mohenjo-daro]] are of a similar variety to an endemic species of wheat still found in India. The [[Indus Valley civilisation|Indus Valley]] is known to be one of the ancestral lands of cultivated wheat. 

Chapatis, along with rotis, were introduced to other parts of the world by immigrants from the Indian subcontinent, particularly by Indian merchants who settled in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean islands.<ref name="Bruce Kraig 2013 p.124"/>

In 1857, the chapati likely may have played a role in the Indian mutiny [[Chapati Movement]].