"dharna" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hindi धरना (dharnā).",
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          "ref": "2005, Je Varalakṣmi, Varalakshmi Jnapathy, Indira Gandhi: Woman of India's Destiny, Gyan Publishing House, page 115",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A sit-in."
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        "(India) A sit-in."
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          "text": "[…] 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.",
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        "A fast undertaken at the door of an offender, especially a debtor."
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        "(India, specifically) A fast undertaken at the door of an offender, especially a debtor."
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        "A sit-in."
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        "(India) A sit-in."
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