acharya vinoba bhave was a great reformer who started the bhoodan andolan.
who was a great reformer who started the bhoodan andolan?
acharya vinoba bhave
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the bhoodan movement or land gift movement was a voluntary land reform movement in india. it was initiated by acharya vinoba bhave in 1951 at pochampally village, which is now in telangana, and known as bhoodan pochampally.





























the bhoodan movement attempted to persuade wealthy landowners to voluntarily give a percentage of their land to landless people. philosophically, bhave was influenced by mahatma gandhi's sarvodaya movement.





























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bhoodan movement
on 18 april 1951, the historic day of the very genesis of the bhoodan movement, vinoba bhave entered the pochampally mandal in nalgonda district, the centre of communist activity. the organisers had arranged vinoba's stay at pochampally, a large village with about 700 families, of whom two-thirds were landless. pochampally villagers gave vinoba a warm welcome. by early afternoon villagers began to gather around vinoba at vinoba's cottage. the villagers asked for eighty acres of land, forty wet, forty dry for forty families that would be enough. then vinoba asked," if it is not possible to get land from the government, is there not something villagers themselves could do ?" to everyone's surprise, indriyal gopal rao pochampally's zamindhar got up & said in a rather excited voice: ""i will give you 1000 acres for these people"" indriyal gopal rao got up & repeated his promise to offer 1000 acres of land to the villagers. this incident neither planned nor imagined was the very genesis of the bhoodan movement & it made vinoba think that there in lay the potentiality of solving the land problem of india. this movement later on developed into a village gift or gramdan movement. as the huge, massive and magnificent movement called bhoodan movement was born at this village pochampally, the village renamed to bhoodan pochampally.
bhoodan pochampally