0 an occasion when offices, businesses, schools, etc. close for a day and people stop working in order to show that they disagree with something or to show respect
The chamber initiated the bandh as a protest against the government's inability to maintain law and order.
An unofficial "bandh" (closure of all shops and other establishments) was announced.
Its shape can not be considered a perfect rectangle either with it having rounded edges at sides reminiscent of a bandh.
A bandh is a powerful means of civil disobedience.
Enraged by this, producers called for a bandh the next day.
During a bandh, a political party or a community declares a general strike.
On the eve of the fifth phase of voting, the naxals called for a 24-hour "bandh".
In the past, irrigation was done mostly by tanks called "kata, munda," or "bandh".
