Bhoodan

or Bhu·dan

[ boo-dahn ]

noun

1. (in India) a socioagricultural movement, started by Vinoba Bhave in 1951, in which village landowners are persuaded to give land to the landless.

Example Sentences

In the late 1950s, he began working on the Bhoodan movement, led by freedom fighter and Gandhi disciple Vinoba Bhave, trying to persuade rich people to give up a part of their land which could then be distributed among the landless poor.

From BBC

"It's the continuation of the Bhoodan movement - now instead of asking rich people to donate land, we are asking the government to give land to every poor person. The government must declare it as policy. I believe no-one should starve and poverty should be eradicated from the country," he says.

From BBC

Cracked Bombay Governor Harekrushna Mahtab: "Gandhi wished to abolish poverty; Bhoodan merely distributes it."

From Time Magazine Archive

Bhoodan stands for land revolution by abolishing private ownership.

From Time Magazine Archive

The social structure would be recast by having everyone over 21 years elect "Bhoodan committees" to redistribute all the land, according to need based on the size of families.

From Time Magazine Archive