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...Walk. Four years after Gandhi's death, disciple Vinoba Bhave (rhymes with save), often called the "son of Gandhi" is leading a one-man land reform crusade. His crusade which 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...
...Prime Minister Nehru ordered Indian army detachments and 10,000 policemen into Telingana province, heartland of the rebellion, to restore order. Despite these measures, Communist guerrillas over the past four years have murdered 3,000 deshmukhs and government supporters,burned hundreds of houses and thousands of tons of rice. Nehru's government abolished yetti, but the police were not above using a little yetti themselves. They seized the peasants' poultry and goats, "requisitioned" their bullock carts. Many peasants turned to the Communists...
...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...