A dharna (Hindi: धरना, Nepali:धर्ना; Urdu: دهرنا), is a non-violent sit-in protest, which may include fast undertaken at the door of an offender, especially a debtor, in India as a means of obtaining compliance with a demand for justice, state response of criminal cases, or payment of a debt. It was a popular form of protest during the Indian independence movement and part of Mahatma Gandhi's satyagraha form of civil disobedience and protest. The origins of the word in from the Sanskrit word Dharaṇaṃ. Dharna was also used in Pakistan by Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Jammat e Islami Pakistan in 1993.