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 --
Often, the community or political party declaring a bandh expects the general public to stay in at home and not report to work.
Because of the huge impact of a bandh on the local community, it is a much-feared tool of protest.
Nagori then calls for a bandh of the market place.
In the past, irrigation was done mostly by tanks called "kata, munda," or "bandh".
On the eve of the fifth phase of voting, the naxals called for a 24-hour "bandh".
During a bandh, a political party or a community declares a general strike.
Enraged by this, producers called for a bandh the next day.
A bandh is a powerful means of civil disobedience.
