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...went, was a gentle, half-deaf little wisp of a man, dressed in the garb of poverty-a homespun dhoti and cheap brown canvas sneakers-but lighted by a flame of authority that has made him one of India's most notable spiritual leaders. His name is Vinoba Bhave (pronounced bah vay). He has no place in the government or any other secular organization; he is what Hindus call an acharya (preceptor). Only a land with holy cities, sacred rivers and thin margins between want and plenty could have produced frail (5 ft. 4 in., 86 Ibs.), ascetic Vinoba...
...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...
...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...
...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...