Bhoodan and Gramdan
Q 1. What is the difference between Bhoodan and Gramdan?
Answer-
Sri Ram Chandra Reddy had stood up and offered 80 acres of land which was distributed to 80 landless villagers and this was known as Bhoodan.
When zamindars, owners of many villages, came to distribute some villages among the landless, it was called gramdan.
Q 2. What do you understand by gramdan?
Answer-
Gramdan refers to the movement where an entire village is denoted to the society as a total.
Q 3. What is Bhoodan gramdan movement?
Answer-
Bhoodan gramdan was led by Vinobha Bhave and he encouraged zamindars to voluntarily donate land to the landless farmers.
What do you understand by “Bhoodan” and “Gramdan”?
Vinoba Bhave’s Bhoodan and Gramdan campaigns attempted a “non-violent revolution” in India’s land reform programme. These integrated groups aimed to enact land reforms by encouraging the landed classes to voluntarily give up a portion of their land to the landless. Acharya Vinoba Bhave, an Indian religious icon, founded the Bhoodan movement. While studying Sanskrit in Varanasi, he became a fan of Mohandas K. Gandhi. Bhave broke British Wartime regulations in 1940, at Gandhiji’s request, and spent nearly five years in prison.
Following Gandhi’s death, Bhave was widely regarded as his heir. In 1951, he founded the Bhoodan Movement, or land-gift activism, since he was more interested in voluntary land reform than politics. He travelled hundreds of kilometres in order to collect land donations for redistribution to the landless. By 1969, it had gathered over 4 million acres (1.6 million hectares) of land for distribution.