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A hartal is a mass protest, often involving a total shutdown of workplaces, offices, shops, and courts of law, and a form of civil disobedience similar to a labour strike. In addition to being a general strike , it involves the voluntary closure of schools and places of business.
For many years Hartal Day was an occasion for rousing speeches by the Left. [13] It was an application of the classic Marxist thesis of the general strike but those who called the hartal never intended to take it beyond that stage, whereas in the Marxist playbook a general strike ought to lead to the overthrow of the government in power. But ...
Hartal called by Reason Casualties and damage Notes 1962 – 1971: 15 [1] then East Pakistan: 1972 – 1975: 5 [1] 1981 – 1987: 59 [1] 1991 – 1996: 266 [1] Awami League, called for hartal of unknown number of days: 1996 – 2001: 215 [1] BNP, called for 59-day hartal [2] 2001 – 2007: Unknown: Bangladesh Awami League, called for 173-day ...
The Supreme Court of India banned bandhs in 1998, [4] but political parties still organize them. In 2004, the Supreme Court of India fined two political parties, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena, for organizing a bandh in Mumbai as a protest against bomb blasts in the city. [4]
The House Tax Hartal of 1810–11 was an occasion of nonviolent resistance to protest a tax in parts of British India, with a particularly noteworthy example of hartal (a form of general strike) in the vicinity of Varanasi.
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On 18 February 1946, the ratings of Talwar, declared a hartal ("strike"), and refused duty. The next day the "mutiny" spread to the RIN Depot at Castle Barracks, and to ships in Bombay harbour.
The All-Malaya Council of Joint Action (AMCJA) was a coalition of political and civic organisations in Malaya formed to participate in the development of a constitution for post-war Malaya in preparation for independence and to oppose the Constitutional Proposals for Malaya (also known as the Federation Proposals or the Anglo-Malay Proposals) which eventually formed the basis of the Federation ...