Word: vinoba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acknowledging the cheers of thousands of peasants who had come swarming into Gangad from 50 miles around, Nehru alighted from his car outside a yellow brick schoolhouse and strode up the gravel path to greet the man he had traveled this distance to see: Vinoba Bhave, a skinny, penniless oldster with sunken cheeks, a wispy white mustache and beard (TIME Cover...
First gift announced by the Rockefeller-endowed Philippine foundation named for the late President Ramon Magsaysay: $10,000 to India's gentle, bearded Vinoba Bhave (TIME, May 11, 1953), for community leadership. A dhoti-clad disciple of Mohandas Gandhi, Ascetic Bhave seven years ago set out walking the land to talk landowners into giving 50 million acres free to landless families, so far has collected some 7,000,000 acres, 2,500 entire villages. Said the citation: "He has sought nothing for himself, least of all recognition of his achievements, and has won the highest respect of his countrymen...
...NOSTALGIA FOR CAMELS, by Christopher Rand (279 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.75), offers still another view of Asia, not panoramic but miniaturist, with the focus on individual Asians. Unpretentious U.S. Journalist Christopher Rand, an old Asia hand, snaps some memorable candids of the famed and humble, ranging from Vinoba Bhave, India's post-Gandhi Gandhi (TIME, May 11, 1953), to Mr. Fu, a Hong Kong opium connoisseur with a palate as refined as that of the most finicky Western vinophile. There is a weatherbeaten Malayan old man of the sea who knows the language of the fish (sharks...
Five years ago, in the village of Pothampalli near Hyderabad, Vinoba Bhave, ascetic disciple of the late Mahatma Gandhi, saw the light: the solution to India's problems was land redistribution. Thereupon, Bhave set out with a few of his own disciples to persuade India's landowners to give away portions of their land (TIME, May 11, 1953). Bhave's target was 50 million acres (one-sixth of India's cultivated land) for 50 million landless laborers, and his appeal was spiritual; he asked landlords to treat him as their "fifth son." Last week, having walked...
...progressive as Hyderabad's and other states are painfully slow in adopting even the most basic land reforms. Aside from official state government legislation, which comes slowly, the chief hope for land reform comes from a little old man with the simple formula of the Golden Rule. Vinoba Bhave, the man Gandhi chose to be his first example of civil disobedience against the British, is walking through villages asking the landed to volunteer one-fifth of their acreage for redistribution. "Bheodan," or landgift, is an idea that may spur state governments to needed reforms. For to date Vinoba has collected...