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dhurna

dhurna is the alternative form of dharna.

Meaning of dharna

Noun

dharna (countable and uncountable, plural dharnas)

  1. (India) 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.2005, Je Varalakṣmi, Varalakshmi Jnapathy, Indira Gandhi: Woman of India's Destiny, Gyan Publishing House, →ISBN, page 115
  2. (India, specifically) 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...1854, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, page 30

Questions about dhurna

What is dhurna the alternative form of?
Dhurna is the alternative form of dharna.

Words near dhurna in the dictionary

  1. dhurkis
  2. dhurmsalla
  3. dhurmsallah
  4. dhurmsallahs
  5. dhurmsallas
  6. dhurna
  7. dhurra
  8. dhurri
  9. dhurrie
  10. dhurries
  11. dhurrin

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