Bhoodan and Sarvodaya

“The bhoodan and Sarvodaya” movement was started by Vinoba Bhave in the year of 1951.This movement was a nonviolent movement to achieve progress in every society in India. This movement generated a model of society that includes no excessive influences and poverty towards the backward people in Indian society.

The approach behind these movements is based on the Gandhian principle of nonviolence, truthfulness and self-sacrifice. It provides tranquility, goodness and sympathy for all people in India. On 11th April 1951 Vinoba Bhave announced to lead this movement in Nalgonda district of Telangana for the rights to give land to the 700 landless families. 

Bhoodan and Sarvodaya 

“Bhoodan and Sarvodaya” movement is an exhaustive move to recreate the ideology of Indian society. This movement aimed to solve the economic differences between the upper class and lower class divisions in Indian society. Vinobas Bhave identifies 50 million landless people in India and collects 50 acres through the gram Dan movement to provide land to each family.

 He declares that there are no possibilities to get land from the government of India, thus he convinces wealthy people to donate their lands to the poor people. The Bhoodan movement is very important in History for their aim of distribution process with persuasion and non-violence efforts. Vinoba Bhave distributed 300 million acres of land through the bhoodan movement under the cultivation of Indian society.

Overview of Bhoodan and Sarvodaya 

Vinoba Bhave donated 100 acres of land in Pochampally village in 1951. It enhanced the Gramdan movement in Andhra Pradesh. This movement was part of the Sarvodaya movement and the aim of this movement came to Gandhi’s mind to serve equality to every person in India. After distributing land in Pochampally, Vinoba came to Panwar and donated 12000 acres of land in 70 days as a principle of Deeksha which means nonviolent revolution. The Bhoodan and Sarvodaya movement follows several rules to reduce inequality in Indian society.

Removal of untouchability, removing caste system, maintaining village cleanliness, promoting adult education, establishing economic equality, services for farmers and backwards people and providing basic education to the women of Indian society are the main aims of these movements. 

Biography of Vinoba Bhave 

Vinoba Bhave was born in Rukmini Devi and Narahari Rao house. He learnt several languages and it helped to draw towards asceticism in his early years. He was going to the Ahmedabad ashram of Gandhi after getting letters from him in the year of 1916.

Ahmedabad ashram was that place where Vinoba Bhave involved himself in several social works related to the promotion of environmental hygiene, sanitation and child education in the country. He was the first  of the Satyagraha movement in the year of 1940. In the year 1951, he started the bhoodan movement to give progress to each person of Indian society. 

Aims of Bhoodan and Sarvodaya 

“The Bhoodan and Sarvodaya movement” brings a social example of solving inequality while providing the same opportunities by giving stable economic distribution. He provides the right of handling property and lands to everyone in Indian society. Sarvodaya movements help to reduce the uses of political power for perpetuating and capturing states by rectifying such anomalies.

It was helpful to introduce spiritual and moral values in economic and social life in the country. The Sarvodaya movement emphasizes self-reliant villages by arranging several village councils to solve their problems. The main philosophy of the Sarvodaya movement was party-less self-government, which means the theory, contends social ideologies and divergent economics held by different parties creates division, frictions and groups in the society.

Facts of Bhoodan and Sarvodaya

“Bhoodan and Sarvodaya movement” is done for giving land from wealthy people to landless people of India. The major goal of this movement is to decrease the gap between the upper class and backward peoples in India. This movement proceeded for 14 years and at that time Vinoba Bhave travelled in each state of India and donated more than 4.4 million acres of land towards the landless people of India.

After this movement, Vinoba Bhave started the gram Dan procedure to gifting land or whole villages to farmers of India. This movement attracts the global audience for being a great example of providing social justice for everyone.

Impact of Bhoodan and Sarvodaya on Land Reforms and Indian Politics 

The Bhoodan movement has two elements; the first was to collect land from the rich peoples and the second was to redistribute the collected lands to the farmers. Vinoba Bhave organised padayatra to persuade the rich zamindars to give at least ⅙ their land to the farmers. This movement becomes a huge step to solve the concerns of the farmers by taking non-violence method.

It was helpful to reduce the exploitation of the farmers and decrease the amount of tax that was created by the rich zamindars of India. The Sarvodaya movement is based on liberty and equality for each person of Indian society. The Sarvodaya movement provides basic education and proper health facilities to every member of Indian society. 

Conclusion 

The Bhoodan movement was historically generated by primitive communists of Indian society. In Indian history, several ideologies are shown between poor and rich peoples in India. With the help of this movement, Vinoba Bhave propagated a new ideal Indian society of moral and political ideology.

Gandhi and Vinoba Bhave solve the economic disparity among the various levels in society while improving the economic situation of the country. This historic movement was based on the convenience of some Harijan villagers to provide their land to the landless people in their district.