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By 1960s the movement had lost its flame despite its considerable initial promise.

Bhoodan Act was started in India by Vinoba Bhave in 1951. Vinoba Bhave walked across India on foot, to persuade landlords to give up a piece of their land.

The movement though independent of government had the support of Congress. JP Narayan withdrew from active politics to join Bhoodan movement in 1953.

Acharya Vinoba Bhave started the Bhoodan Movement as a voluntary land reform movement in India in 1951.

Raja Bahadur Giriwar narayan Singh, Raja of Ranka donated highest acre of land to the village in Palamau area on 19 November 1969.

The Bhoodan-Gramdan movement started by Vinoba Bhave are known as Blood-Less revolution.

In 1967, after the withdrawal of Vinoba Bhave from the movement, it lost its mass base. In the later period, landlords had mostly donated land under dispute or unfit for cultivation.

Raja Bahadur Giriwar Narayan Singh, Raja of Ranka donated 111,101 aces of land to the Vinoba Bhave Bhoodan initiative which became the highest acreage of land given by an landlord or estate-owner in India.

After the successful start of Bhoodan movement, it gave way to the Gramdan movement which began in 1952. the objective of the Gramdan movement was to persuade landlords and leaseholders in each village to renounce their land rights and all the land would become the property of a village association for egalitarian redistribution and joint cultivation.

Burrakatha is an oral storytelling technique in the Katha tradition.