Vinoba Bhave (born September 11, 1895, Gagode, Bombay Presidency [now in Maharashtra], India—died November 15, 1982, Wardha, Maharashtra) was one of India’s best-known social reformers and a widely venerated disciple of Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi. Bhave was the founder of the Bhoodan Yajna (“Land-Gift Movement”). Born of a high-caste Brahman family, he abandoned his high school studies in 1916 to join Gandhi’s ashram (ascetic community) at Sabarmati, near Ahmadabad. Gandhi’s ... Acharya Vinoba Bhave Associates of Mahatma Gandhi"I know of nothing which is of greater value than reading the Gita. And yet, I have found a living person who follows the philosophy of Gita in his own life. He is my master and lives in an Ashram on the banks of Sabarmati river in Gujarat" said Vinoba Bhave , while concluding his fiftieth talk on Gita. Perhaps these were the apt words in which a disciple could pay tribute to his master. Acharya Vinoba Bhave is not known for wasting words ... Vinoba Bhave > Vinoba Bhave (1895-1982) was an Indian nationalist and social-reform leader >who inherited Mahatma Gandhi's spiritual mantle. Bhave 's most notable >contribution was the creation of the bhoodan (land gift) movement. Acharya Vinoba Bhave was a renowned Indian social reformer and freedom fighter, best known for leading the Bhoodan movement to promote land redistribution.
