Word: sewagram
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...September, Prime Minister Nehru sent for Bhave. He set out from his ashram at Sewagram in Central India to walk the 795 miles to New Delhi. On the way, his soft words won him 25,000 acres from 3,000 donors, mostly small landowners having less than five acres. One aged woman, after hearing Bhave, gave him half of her two-acre plot. Another gave him her entire 500-acre estate. The land is distributed to the landless on the basis of one acre for each member of the family. Bhave asks cash donors to buy land for him, present...
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