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‖ dharna, dhurna E. Ind.|dhʌrna|
Also dherna.
[Hindī dharnā placing, act of sitting in restraint, f. Skr. dhṛ to place.]
A mode of extorting payment or compliance with a demand, effected by the complainant or creditor sitting at the debtor's door, and there remaining without tasting food till his demand shall be complied with; this action is called ‘sitting in dharnā’ or ‘sitting dharnā’, and the person on whom it is practised is said to be ‘put in dharnā’.
c1793Sir J. Shore in Asiat. Res. (1799) IV. 332 The practice called Dherna [which] may be translated Caption, or Arrest. 1824Heber Jrnl. (1828) I. 433 To sit ‘dhurna’..till the person against whom it is employed consents to the request offered. 1837Indian Penal Code Act XLV (1860) c. 22 §508 (Y.) A. sits dhurna at Z.'s door with the intention [etc.]. 1842W. Miles tr. Hist. Hydur Naik 41 (Y.) His troops, for want of their pay, placed him in Dhurna. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India II. 175 Detaining their commanders in the sort of arrest termed dharna. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. 40 (Y.) The institution is..identical with one widely diffused throughout the East, which is called by the Hindoos ‘Sitting dharna’. |