Word: sarvodayapuri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...India's Bihar state are hazy with the furnacelike heat. This does not stop Bihar's holy men from tramping the dusty roads, day after day. Nor did it stop 550 disciples of the late Mohandas K. Gandhi from gathering last week at a village called Sarvodayapuri. They met to celebrate the third anniversary of the land-gift movement founded and led by saintly, frail Vinoba Bhave, India's nearest living equivalent to Gandhi (TIME, May 11, 1953). Bhave's movement urges those who have land to give some, for their souls' sake, to those...
...successful had the movement been that the three most popular and influential men in India gathered at Sarvodayapuri. First, there was Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Second, there was Vinoba Bhave himself. Third, there was Nehru's chief political rival, tall (6 ft.) Jaya Prakash Narayan, the founder and leader of India's Socialist Party. A fascinating man about whom the rest of the world knows little. Narayan in his youth was a violent Marxist and anti-British revolutionary, and in his middle age is a man of peace and religion and a forthright antiCommunist...
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