gram|dan

gram|dan
gram|dan «grahm DAHN», noun.
a village or other land unit in India, given voluntarily by the owners to the people who live on it as part of a program of social reform advocated by followers of Gandhi. Also, gramadan.
[< Hindustani grāmdān, grāmadān, < grāma village + dān gift]

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