swaraj
Americannoun
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(in India) self-government.
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(initial capital letter) (formerly, in British India) the political party supporting this principle over British rule.
noun
Other Word Forms
- swarajism noun
- swarajist noun
Etymology
Origin of swaraj
1905–10; < Hindi, presumably equivalent to Sanskrit sva own + Hindi rāj raj
Example Sentences
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"We have had a foretaste of swaraj," he declared with irony.
From BBC • Nov. 18, 2021
True democracy, or swaraj, involved much more participation from citizens, he believed; it required them to combine self-rule with self-restraint, politics with ethics.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018
When, as Salman Rushdie wrote in “Midnight’s Children,” the “clock-hands joined palms in respectful greeting,” millions celebrated the end of colonialism and the beginning of swaraj, or self-rule, in the form of a modern nation-state.
From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2013
Courts functioning under martial law at Sholapur jailed wholesale those guilty of promoting swaraj, for terms up to ten years.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the day he arrived back home at 45, he dedicated himself to "Hind swaraj," Indian self-rule.
From Time Magazine Archive
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