INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -Suddenly, Shri Ram Chandra Reddy stood up and offered 80 acres of land to be distributed among 80 landless villagers. This act was known as ‘Bhoodan’. Later he travelled and introduced his ideas widely all over India. Some zamindars, owners of many villages offered to distribute some villages among the landless.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Bhoodan-Gramdan Movement was a land reform movement in which some of the poor landless villagers demanded some land for their economic welfare. The Bhoodan-Gramdan movement is also known as the Land-gift Movement.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Bhoodan Gramdan Movement was led by Vinobha Bhave. He encouraged zamindars to voluntarily donate land to the landless people. This movement later came to be known as the bloodless revolution.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Bhoodan movement (Land Gift movement), also known as the Bloodless Revolution, was a voluntary land reform movement in India. It was initiated by Gandhian Vinoba Bhave in 1951 at Pochampally village, Pochampally.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Bhoodan and Gramdan movements led by Vinoba Bhave attempted to bring about a “non-violent revolution” in India’s land reforms programme. These integrated movements were an attempted to implement land reforms by urging the landed classes to voluntarily surrender a part of their land to the landless.