A variant spelling of hartal; a strike or work stoppage used as a form of protest.
Alternative spelling of 'hartal,' reflecting different transliteration conventions from Hindi into English. Both spellings were used in early English accounts of Indian protests.
The different spellings 'hartal' and 'hartall' show how English speakers struggled to represent Hindi sounds in the 19th and 20th centuries—different people made different choices, and we're left with variant spellings in historical texts!
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