hartal
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hartal
1915–20; < Hindi harṭal, variant of haṭṭāl, equivalent to hat shop ( Sanskrit haṭṭa ) + tāl locking ( Sanskrit tālāka lock, bolt)
Example Sentences
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In response, the Indian National Congress resolved to welcome the prince to Bombay with a hartal or strike, and bonfires of foreign-made cloth, a symbol of Britain's economic imperialism.
From BBC • Nov. 18, 2021
It came up on a nation-wide one-day hartal or "passive halting of work" ordered by the Indian National Congress.
From Time Magazine Archive
India's editors stood it as long as they could, in late December decided to stage last week's hartal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Comfort for Britons lay in the small success achieved by Swarajist leaders, last week, in organizing a hartal or "strike in mourning" against the Commission.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was downright thankful to be helping Lance with some sports for the men, designed to counteract the infectious state of ferment prevailing in the city, on account of to-morrow's deferred hartal.
From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Diver, Maud
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