bandh

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bandh

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Borrowed from Hindi बंध (bandh, “closure”), from Sanskrit बन्ध (bandha). Doublet of bund (“a type of enclosure”).

noun bandhs · bundh · bund

South Asia A general strike, shutdown, or other form of protest used in South Asia in which a substantial portion of the population stays home and does not report to work. The impending course of events and the patterns of violence could have readily been foreseen after the incident in Godhra, and particularly after the VHP's declaration of a state-wide bandh, both by the city's residents and government authorities […]

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@misc{bandh_2026,
  title = {bandh},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bandh},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}