Definition of Dharna

1. Noun. A debt collector in India who sits on the doorstep of a debtor until the debt is paid. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dharna

1. a form of protest in India [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dharna

dg
dhaincha
dhaki
dhakis
dhaks
dhal
dhals
dhamma
dhammas
dhampir
dhampirs
dharma
dharmas
dharmic
dharna (current term)
dharnas
dhava
dhawa
dhikr
dhikrs
dhimma
dhimmi
dhimmis
dhindo
dhobi
dhobi itch
dhobie itch

Literary usage of Dharna

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1869)
"Bharata threatened that he would sit in dharna against Rama; a Brahmanical proceeding which in former days was a frequent source of oppression, ..."

2. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"He there sits down in dharna, with poison or a poniard, or some other instrument of suicide in his hand, and, threatening to use it if his adversary should ..."

3. The Canada Law Journal by William S. Hein & Company (1891)
"dharna means detention or arrest. The semi-divine legislator of India, Manu, who wrote a lawbook in verse, somewhere between 1280 BC and 400 AD— the learned ..."

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