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dharna

noun dharnas · dhurna

India, countable, uncountable A sit-in. 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, countable, specifically, uncountable A fast undertaken at the door of an offender, especially a debtor. […] 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 agricul

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@misc{dharna_2026,
  title = {dharna},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dharna},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}