Gramdann.

1957 Economist 28 Sept. 1037/1 The most specifically Indian political innovation since Mahatma Gandhi's satyagraha was bhoodan, the gift of land. Acharya Vinoba Bhave, its founder, has now extended it to gramdan, the gift of villages.

1958 Times of India 3 June 6 Many of them had not even heard of bhoo-dan or gram-dan before Vinoba and his men came along and asked them to give a part of their land as a gift or pool their land in the interest of the whole village.

1959 E. M. Hough & K. Madhava Das Co-op. Movement in India (ed. 4) 425 The problem of meeting the credit needs of the gramdan villages in Koraput.

1969 Times 13 Oct. (Indian Suppl.) p. vi/7 The movement is at present in its second stage: that of Gramdan... So far all that is being done is to collect ‘declarations of intent’ on prescribed forms, a village being declared Gramdan when at least 75 per cent of its population has signed the form... Only after 80 per cent of the villages in a state have been brought under Gramdan in this manner, would the implementing of the declared intentions be taken up.

1971 Catholic Worker Feb. 7/2 We see in a gramdan village how a meeting house, a nursery, a village store, a school, a milk cooperative can be started through voluntary cooperation.