Gherao

From Hindi à¤˜à¥‡à¤°à¤¾à¤µ (gherÄv, "encirclement").

(plural gheraos or gheraoes)

(India) A protest in which a group of people surrounds a politician, building, etc. until demands are met.

2002, Bharti Kirchner, Darjeeling, St. Martin's Press (2002), ISBN 0312286422, page 26:They had done a gherao and trapped the manager in his office for a whole day.
2007, Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, Macmillan (2007), ISBN 9780330396110, page 425:This was an invitation to strike: according to one estimate, there were more than 1,200 gheraos in the first six months of the first UF-LF government.
2011, Arun Sinha, Nitish Kumar and the Rise of Bihar, Viking (2011), ISBN 9780670084593, page 40:They led us in a mob to the administrative office of the Patna University, blockaded the main entrance and besieged the vice chancellor's office in a gherao

Full definition of gherao

1996, Kavery Nambisan, The Scent of Pepper, Penguin (2010), ISBN 9780140264432, page 215:One day the city magistrate asked the army for help to curb a protest march by women Congress workers who had threatened to gherao the officials in the divisional office.
2006, Shakuntala Devi, Employment of Labour and Rural Development, Sarup & Sons (2006), ISBN 8176257168, page 53:In reply, the cultivators, apparently now protesting under the banner of the BKU gheraoed the power station.
2010, B. G. Verghese, First Draft: Witness to the Making of Modern India, Tranquebar Press (2010), ISBN 9789380283760, unnumbered page:Further incensed by the findings of two Citizen's Inquiry Committees that he had set up to probe the earlier police firings in Gaya and Patna, JP now announced a programme that involved picketing the Assembly, gheraoing the residences of MLAs,