Word: ahimsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week I spent in the wilds of Bihar while doing the research for the cover story on Vinoba Bhave [TIME, May 11];. Much of the time was spent trekking through the tiger-and the elephant-infested jungles. Since Bhave and his followers are strict practition ers of ahimsa (nonviolence), and are not even supposed to resist a man-eat ing tiger or a rogue elephant, each vil lage we passed through furnished us with a corps of drummers to scare off the wild beasts. Before dawn every morning, as we walked through the narrow-jungle paths with the native party...
Bhave wandered into areas from which the police had warned him to stay away, but he was unharmed. At first he preached ahimsa (Gandhi's old nonviolence), but he soon saw that this was not enough. "I confess," he said, "that the incendiary and murderous activities did not unnerve me, because I know that the birth of a new culture has always been accompanied in the past by blood baths. What is needed is not to get panicky, but to keep our heads cool and find a peaceful means of resolving the conflict. The police are not expected...
...began with remarkable success in Communist-terrorized Telingana province (TIME, June 4), now promises to sweep through India. Bhave's target: the redistribution of 50 million acres-one-sixth of the cultivated land-among India's millions of landless peasants. His argument: "In India the ideal of Ahimsa (nonviolence) has deeply influenced people's minds. We can successfully bring about peaceful social revolution by gentle persuasion. If we adopt violent means as has been done in China and Russia the whole world will face calamity...