References: 1. Bhave Acharya Vinoba. 2010. Bhoodan Yagna in A. R Desai (edt) Rural Sociology in India. (10th edition) Mumbai. Popular Prakashan. 2. Choudhuri Manmohan. 2010. The Gramdan Movement in A. R Desai (edt) Rural Sociology in India. (10th edition) Mumbai. Popular Prakashan 3. Government of Bihar. 2007. Interim Report on Some Issues relating to Bhoodan in Bihar. Patna: State Secretariat. 4. Parida Sarat.2010. Twenty Five years of Bhoodan Movement in Orissa (1951-76) -A Review in Orissa Review May-June. 5. Oommen T.K. 2010. Myth and Reality in India's Communitarian Villages in A. R Desai (edt) Rural Sociology in India. (10th edition) Mumbai. Popular Prakashan. 6. Oommen T. K. 2010. The Bhoodan-Gramdan Movement in T. K Oommen (ed.). Social Movements II : Concerns of Equity and Security. New Delhi. Oxford University Press 7. Shah. C.G. 2010. Sampattidan and Bhoodan Movement in A. R Desai (edt) Rural Sociology in India. (10th edition) Mumbai. Popular Prakashan. 8. Singh Rajendra, 2001. Social Movements, Old and New: A Post Modernist Critique. New Delhi. Sage Publication. 9. Shukla Nimisha and Sudarshan Iyengar. 2011.Governing of Commons : The Bhoodan Way www.iasc2011.fes.org.in/papers/docs/127/submission/original/127.pdf 10. Thorner Daniel. 2010. Bhoodan: Its Evaluation in A. R Desai (edt) Rural Sociology in India. (10th edition) Mumbai. Popular Prakashan. Learn More Interesting Facts Indeed, Vinoba Bhave was featured on the cover of the TIME magazine in its issue dated May 11, 1953: India: A Man on Foot. See www.vinobabhave.org/en/articles/8-main/137-timemagazine.htm Vinoba was also the recipient awarded Ramon Magsaysay award and Bharat Ratna. As a Ramon Magsaysay awardee, Vinoba’s short biography (composed in August 1958) is available at www.rmaf.org.ph/newrmaf/main/awardees/awardee/biography/69 Vinoba’s name is associated with Pawnar Ashram near Nagpur. It is some twenty five kilometers from Mahatma Gandhi’s Sewagram Ashram. In his later life, Vinoba became a proponent of goraksha (save the cow) movement. Vinoba had called the emergency of 1975, imposed by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, an anushashan parwa (a festival of discipline). Web Resources To know more about Vinoba’s Bhoodan philosophy you can read Srivastava’s article available online http://www.jstor.org/stable/41854229. You can also go through a useful compendium of titles available at www.gandhiserve.org › Books › Library Books English Points to Ponder Why is it that states like Bihar and Odisha (generally considered poor and backward) saw the maximum donation of land under Bhoodan-Gramdan movement? Do you think that Bhoodan movement would have done relatively better without the support of state agencies? Can charisma overcome the problems of bureaucratization? .