dharna

English

Alternative forms

• dhurna

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi धरना (dharnā).

Noun

dharna (countable and uncountable, plural dharnas)

1. (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.

2. (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.

See also

• traga

Anagrams

• Andhra

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣɑːɾˠn̪ˠə/

Numeral

dharna

1. Lenited form of darna.