‖ Bhoodan
(buːˈdɑːn)
Also bhoo-dan, bhoodan.
[Hindi, f. bhū earth, land + dān gift.]
A movement in India initiated by Vinoba Bhave in 1951 for landowners to make free gifts of land to the poor.
| 1953 Times 15 Apr. 7/3 The bhoodan (land-gift) movement..is attempting to help the thirty million to forty million landless cultivators of India. 1958 Times of India 3 June 6 Many of them had not even heard of bhoo-dan or gram-dan before Vinoba and his men came along and asked them to give a part of their land as a gift or pool their land in the interest of the whole village. 1960 Koestler Lotus & Robot i. i. 19 His..solemn pledge to devote the rest of his life to the service of the Bhoodan movement. |