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Definition of: dharna
(där′nə, dûr′-) noun
In India, a method of claiming justice by refusing food or starving to death while sitting before the gate or door of the oppressor, to the end that the death shall be upon the oppressor's head. Also dhur′na. [<Hind. dharnā]
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