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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.

The Bhoodan movement made a significant contribution by creating moral ambience, putting pressure on landlords, created conditions favourable to landless.

Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the third reach in polish areas annexed by Nazis.

Vedire ramachandra Reddy got his title " Bhoodan" as he was the first donor and initiator of the great land donation movement in early 1950s in Telangana at a village called Pochampally in the Nalgonda district of Telangana.

The first village to come under gramdan was Mangroth in Hamirpur District of U.P. It took more than three years to get another village in gift. the second and third gramdans took place in Orssa and the movement started spreading with emphasis on securing village in gift.