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/ˈhɑː.tɑːl/ · noun
(South Asia, Malaysia) the closure of shops and offices, typically as a strike..
There were slight disturbances in Karachi and Bombay city, a hartal in Bombay city similar to the last one but probably helped by the news of Tilak's death, […]
One of the special characteristics of Bangladesh politics is hartal politics, a legacy of tactics of political agitation, which was used, in pre-partition India […]
The eight-month-long hadtal and the accompanying hijrat or exodus reflect the collective strength of the Mahajan and their capacity to mobilize and organize.
Use hartal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hartal means (South Asia, Malaysia) the closure of shops and offices, typically as a strike..
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There were slight disturbances in Karachi and Bombay city, a hartal in Bombay city similar to the last one but probably helped by the news of Tilak's death, […]
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