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...Land Is a Mother." In April a lean, ascetic-looking little man with yellow-rimmed spectacles and a greying goatee walked into Telingana with a small party of followers. He was Vinoba Bhave, disciple of the late Mahatma Gandhi. He set out to give the peasants what the Communists promised them-land...
...Each day Bhave's party rose at 3:30 a.m., prayed and meditated for 90 minutes, then set out briskly afoot for a native village. There, after resting, Bhave held court. Peasants came to air grievances, bring disputes for arbitration. Bhave followed Gandhi's line. He told the peasants: "If policemen compel you to work without wages, please refuse to do so and tell them I told you so." He would add: "The land is a Mother. Everybody has a right to approach her. Hence, a proper distribution of land should take place. If landlords will donate their...
After walking more than 700 miles, Bhave has persuaded the deshmukhs to give him 5,000 acres which he is redistributing among the landless. Indian Congress leaders are helping Bhave. The Hyderabad government recently enacted a law by which deshmukhs owning more than 750 acres must sell part of their land to tenants at a government-fixed price...
...Come." One Indian newspaper has called Bhave "the Saint Paul of constructive work." Wherever he goes, roads, huts or houses are decorated with festoons of palm and mango leaves. As he passes through wayside villages at dawn, groups of scantily clad, emaciated people shout: "The God who is distributing land has come!" Or, calling him the "son of Gandhi," they touch his feet, offer him flower garlands and fruit, beat drums, and blow bugles...
...Bombay an Indian National Congress member named Vinoba Bhave was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for making, or being about to make, a speech against the war. Vinoba Bhave, who was picked as the first martyr of Mohandas Gandhi's new civil-disobedience movement three months ago, had been released from jail just in time to go back again...