dharna
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Borrowed from Hindi धरना (dharnā).
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dharna (countable and uncountable, plural dharnas)
- (India) A sit-in.
- 2005, Je Varalakṣmi, Varalakshmi Jnapathy, Indira Gandhi: Woman of India's Destiny, Gyan Publishing House, →ISBN, page 115:
- ln December 1974, Morarji Desai, gave a threat of staging a dharna inside the Lok Sabha chamber. ln June 1975, Morarji Deshmukh, the Jana Sangh leader, stated that there had to be a Delhi Bandh to compel the Prime Minister to resign.
- (India, specifically) A fast undertaken at the door of an offender, especially a debtor.
- 1854, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts[1], Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, page 30:
- […] house-tax having been imposed on the natives during Lord Minto's government […] the Brahmins resolved to try the virtue of a dharna; […] The local government was exceedingly perplexed; for, besides the risk of hundreds perishing, there was the certainty of a famine, from the cessation of agricultural labour if the dharna continued.
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dharna
- Lenited form of darna.