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12/09/22 06:47 AM IST

Acharya Vinoba Bhave

In News 
  • The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has paid tributes to Acharya Vinoba Bhave on his Jayanti.
Acharya Vinoba Bhave 
  • Vinayak Narahari Bhave, born on 11th September 1895, Gagode, Bombay Presidency (now in Maharashtra).
  • Eldest son of Narahari Shambhu Rao and Rukmini Devi.
  • His mother had a major influence on him. He was inspired by her to read 'The Gita'.
  • One of India’s best-known social reformers and a widely venerated disciple of Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi. Founder of the Bhoodan Yajna (“Land-Gift Movement”).
Role in Freedom Struggle 
  • Took part in programs of non-cooperation and especially the call for use of Swadeshi goods instead of foreign imports.
  • In 1940, he was chosen as the first Individual Satyagrahi (an Individual standing up for Truth instead of a collective action) against British Raj by Gandhi in India.
  • Bhave was imprisoned several times during the 1920s and ’30s and served a five-year prison sentence in the ’40s for leading nonviolent resistance to British rule. He was given the honorific title acharya (“teacher”).
Bhoodan Movement
  • In the year 1951, the Harijans of the Pochampalli village of Telangana requested him to provide them with around 80 acres of land to make a living.
  • Vinoba asked the landlords of the village to come forward and save the Harijans. and a landlord got up and offered the required land. This incident added a new chapter in the history of sacrifices and non-violence.
  • It was the beginning of the Bhoodan (Gift of the Land) movement.
  • The movement continued for thirteen years and Vinoba toured the length and breadth of the country, a total distance of 58741 Km.
  • He was successful in collecting around 4.4 million acres of land, of which around 1.3 million was distributed among poor landless farmers.
  • The movement attracted admiration from all over the world and was commended for being the only experiment of his kind to incite voluntary social justice.
Source- PIB 

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