dharnadhurnan.

/dhʌrna/

Forms: Also dherna.

Etymology: < Hindi dharnā placing, act of sitting in restraint, < Sanskrit dhṛ to place.

East India.

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’.

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c1793 Sir J. Shore in Asiatic Researches (London ed.) (1799) 4 332 The practice called Dherna [which] may be translated Caption, or Arrest.

1824 R. Heber Jrnl. 19 Sept. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) I. xiii. 326 To sit ‘dhurna’..is to remain motionless in that posture..till the person against whom it is employed consents to the request offered.

1837 Indian Penal Code Act XLV. (1860) c. 22 §508 A. sits dhurna at Z.'s door with the intention [etc.].

1842 W. Miles tr. Hist. Hydur Naik 41 His troops, for want of their pay, placed him in Dhurna.

1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. iv. 175 Detaining their commanders in the sort of arrest termed dharna.

1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. 40 The institution is..identical with one widely diffused throughout the East, which is called by the Hindoos ‘Sitting dharna’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dharna
释义	dharnadhurnan. /dhʌrna/ Forms: Also dherna. Etymology: < Hindi dharnā placing, act of sitting in restraint, < Sanskrit dhṛ to place. East India. 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’. ΚΠ c1793 Sir J. Shore in Asiatic Researches (London ed.) (1799) 4 332 The practice called Dherna [which] may be translated Caption, or Arrest. 1824 R. Heber Jrnl. 19 Sept. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) I. xiii. 326 To sit ‘dhurna’..is to remain motionless in that posture..till the person against whom it is employed consents to the request offered. 1837 Indian Penal Code Act XLV. (1860) c. 22 §508 A. sits dhurna at Z.'s door with the intention [etc.]. 1842 W. Miles tr. Hist. Hydur Naik 41 His troops, for want of their pay, placed him in Dhurna. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. iv. 175 Detaining their commanders in the sort of arrest termed dharna. 1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. 40 The institution is..identical with one widely diffused throughout the East, which is called by the Hindoos ‘Sitting dharna’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1793
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