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Bhoodan

American  
[boo-dahn] / buˈdɑn /
Or Bhudan

noun

  1. (in India) a socioagricultural movement, started by Vinoba Bhave in 1951, in which village landowners are persuaded to give land to the landless.

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The social structure would be recast by having everyone over 21 years elect "Bhoodan committees" to redistribute all the land, according to need based on the size of families.

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Cracked Bombay Governor Harekrushna Mahtab: "Gandhi wished to abolish poverty; Bhoodan merely distributes it."

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Bhoodan stands for land revolution by abolishing private ownership.

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