The Bhoodan movement (Land Gift movement), also known as the Bloodless Revolution, was a voluntary land reform movement in India. It was initiated by Gandhian Vinoba Bhave in 1951 at Pochampally village, Pochampally .
14-515: The Bhoodan movement attempted to persuade wealthy landowners to voluntarily give a percentage of their land to landless people. Bhave drew philosophical inspiration from the Sarvodaya movement and Gram Swarajya. Landless laborers were given small plots on which they could settle and grow their crops. This Act was passed so that the beneficiary had no right to sell the land or use it for non-agricultural purposes or forestry. For example, Section 25 of
28-606: A flag of truce as a ruse to buy time. Hindman's army and Blunt's reinforced command fought the Battle of Prairie Grove on December 7, which retained Union control of Missouri and northwestern Arkansas. ( Full article... ) November 28 : Thanksgiving in the United States (2024); Bukovina Day in Romania The ocellated turkey ( Meleagris ocellata ) is a species of turkey residing primarily in
42-502: A village gift or gramdan movement and was a part of a comprehensive movement for establishing a Sarvodaya society (the rise of all socio-economic-political order), both in and outside India. By the 1960s, the movement had lost momentum. The Sarvodaya Samaj failed to build a mass movement that would generate pressure for social transformation. However, the movement made a significant contribution by creating moral ambivalence, putting pressure on landlords, and creating conditions favorable to
56-511: Is not possible to get land from the government, is there not something villagers themselves could do?" V. Ramachandra Reddy initially offered a donation of 100 acres (40 ha) of his 3,500 acres (14 km) land. Later, he donated 800 acres (3.2 km). He joined social reform. After him, the land donation movement continued under a Bhoodan trust movement with the help of his sons. The 7th Nizam of Hyderabad , Mir Osman Ali Khan also donated 14,000 acres (57 km) of his personal land to
70-564: The Yucatán Peninsula , Mexico, as well as in parts of Belize and Guatemala. It is a relative of the North American wild turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ), although it is somewhat smaller. The body feathers of both sexes are a mixture of bronze and green iridescent color, with neither sex possessing the beard typically found in wild turkeys. Tail feathers of both sexes are bluish-grey with an eye-shaped, blue-bronze spot near
84-641: The Bhoodan movement. Other landowners including Raja Bahadur Giriwar Narayan Singh, C.B.E. and Raja of Ranka (Garhwa Jharkhand) donated a combined 102,001 acres (412.78 km) acres to the Bhoodan initiative, the largest donation in India. Raja bahadur of Namudag estate also donated 1.01 lakh acres to the bhoodan initiative Maharaja Kamakhya Narain Singh Bahadur of Ramgarh Raj donated 200,000 acres (810 km) of land to Vinoba Bhave and others under
98-579: The Bihar Bhoodan Yagna Act, before the institution of the suit, making it the biggest donation from any king. Maharajadhiraj Kameshwar Singh ji of Darbhanga Raj donated 1.17 lakh acres of land in bhudan movement. During Vinoba Bhave's Surajgarh visit, he was welcomed by headmaster Rambilas Sharma, who was instrumental in spreading the Bhoodan movement in the Jhunjhunu district in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The initial objective of
112-500: The Maharashtra State Bhoodan Act states that the beneficiary (who must be landless) should only use the land for subsistence cultivation. If the "owner" failed to cultivate the land for over a year or tried to use it for non-agriculture activities, the government would have the right to confiscate it. Bhave wanted peasants to give up using bullocks , tractors, or other machines for agricultural purposes. This
126-543: The end with a bright gold tip. These spots, or ocelli (for which the ocellated turkey is named) have been likened to the patterning typically found on peafowl. This ocellated turkey was photographed near Tikal in the Petén region of Guatemala. Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp Misplaced Pages is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation , a non-profit organization that also hosts
140-652: The landless. Ox">bullocks The requested page title contains unsupported characters : ">". Return to Main Page . Main Page The battle of Cane Hill was fought during the American Civil War on November 28, 1862, near the town of Cane Hill, Arkansas . Union troops under James G. Blunt had pursued Confederate troops commanded by Thomas C. Hindman into northwestern Arkansas , and Hindman saw an opportunity to attack Blunt while
154-521: The latter was isolated. Confederate cavalry under John S. Marmaduke moved to Cane Hill to collect supplies. Blunt moved to attack Marmaduke on November 27. The Union advance made contact with Confederate troopers the next morning. The Confederates fell back to an elevation known as Reed's Mountain. Blunt continued to pursue after the Confederates abandoned Reed's Mountain, but his leading elements ran into an ambush. The Confederates then presented
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#1732798821795168-592: The movement was to secure voluntary donations and distribute them to the landless but soon came to demand 1/6 of all private land. In 1952, the movement widened the concept of gram dan ("village in gift" or the donation of an entire village) and started advocating common ownership of land. The first village to come under gramdan was Mangroth in Hamirpur district of Uttar Pradesh . The second and third gramdan took place in Orissa in 1955. This movement developed into
182-565: Was called rishi-kheti in Hindi . Bhave also wanted the people to give up using money in the form of kanchan-dan . The movement had the support of Congress . JP Narayan withdrew from active politics to join the Bhoodan movement in 1953. Bhave crossed India on foot to persuade landowners to give up a piece of their land. His first success came on 18 April 1951 at Pochampally village in Nalgonda district , Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana) which
196-633: Was the center of communist activity. It was the culmination of the Telangana peasant movement. A violent struggle had been launched by peasants against the local landlords. Movement organizers had arranged for Bhave to stay at Pochampally, a village of about 700 families, of whom two-thirds were landless. Bhave visited the Harijan colony. By early afternoon, villagers began to gather around him. The Harijans asked for 80 acres (32 ha) of land, forty wet, forty dry, for forty families. Bhave asked, "If it
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