单词 | hartal |
释义 | hartaln. India. Organized shutting of shops and cessation of business, to serve, usually, as a protest against government legislation or a political situation, or as an act of mourning. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > [noun] > protest > forms of rattening1828 polytechnic1835 restriction1852 lockout1853 ca'canny1896 restrictive practice1896 go-slow1920 hartal1920 lock-in1920 working to rule1920 work-to-rule1920 cacannyism1921 job actionc1926 slowdown1926 gherao1967 work-in1967 work-to-contract1969 sick-out1970 sick-in1974 siege action1977 1920 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 441/1 What I had seen there of the crowds at the Hartal..had made me nervous. 1921 Q. Rev. July 54 He proclaimed a universal ‘hartal’, or cessation from business, as a protest against the Rowlatt legislation. 1922 Q. Rev. Oct. 417 Gandhi was preparing a Hartal at Bombay. 1931 Daily Tel. 6 Jan. 9/5 The Moslems enforced a complete ‘hartal’ (day of mourning or strike). 1955 Times 18 Aug. 8/5 A hartal to be observed throughout India on Friday was called here to-day by the Goa liberation committee in memory of the Indians killed by Portuguese fire on Monday. 1958 J. V. Bondurant Conquest of Violence iii. 36 Non-cooperation may include strike, walk-out, hartal, and resignation of offices and titles. 1958 J. V. Bondurant Conquest of Violence iv. 119 The hartal is usually of short duration—a day or two. Shops close and work ceases. Hartal is also employed at times of national mourning. 1962 A. Carter Direct Action 8 At the beginning of the Rowlatt Act Satyagraha Gandhi called on his followers for a ‘hartal’—a day of abstention from work and of fasting and prayer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1920 |
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