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	Encyclopedia: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
		Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel (October 31, 1875â“December 15, 1950), popularly referred to as Sardar Patel ("Sardar" stands for "Chief" or "Leader"), was an Indian statesman, core leader of the Indian Independence Movement and of the Indian National Congress.
		Patel would assume a leading role in writing the free nation's Constitution as well, responsible for inculcating separation of powers, religious freedom and equality (ironically, he was often portrayed with an anti-Muslim bias) and the right to property.
		Patel strongly advised Nehru against arbitration from the United Nations, insisting that Pakistan had been wrong to support the invasion and the accession to India was valid.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sardar-Vallabhbhai-Patel (8284 words)

	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vallabhbhai Patel was born into a farmer family on October 31, 1875, in Nadiad, Gujarat, India.
		Vallabhbhai Patel's most important contributions came in the period between 1946 and 1948, when the Congress negotiated India's independence; when the Partition of India took place, and India's independence was greeted by intensive communal violence, an exodus of 10 million people, war over Kashmir and the pending integration of 565 princely states.
		Patel, along with Defence Minister Baldev Singh administered the entire military effort, arranging for troops from different parts of India to be rushed to Kashmir, and for a major military road connecting Srinagar to Pathankot be built in 6 months.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sardar_Vallabhbhai_Patel (5592 words)

	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Patel joined the Congress during (Political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule; an advocate of passive resistance (1869-1948)) Gandhi's non-cooperation movements of the twenties and by 1937 had been Congress President twice.
		Patel, who was loyal to Gandhi, did not go against the latter's wish to see the (A city in eastern England on the River Cam; site of Cambridge University) Cambridge-educated Nehru as the successor to his legacy.
		Patel and Menon attempted to persuade the princes of the impossibilty of autonomy from the Indian republic, especially in the presence of growing opposition from their subjects.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/sardar_vallabhbhai_patel.htm (726 words)

	Manas: History and Politics, Sardar Patel
		Vallabhbhai Patel was born in Nadiad in present-day Gujarat in 1875.
		Patel joined Gandhi in representing the weavers in the dispute with millowners in Ahmedabad in 1918, and he played a pivotal role in helping to redress the grievances of peasants in Kheda district.
		Patel contributed very substantially to the deliberations of the Constituent Assembly, and it has not always been recognized that the protection and privileges guaranteed to minorities in the Indian Constitution under Articles 29 and 30 owe much to the vigilance of Patel.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/History/Independent/Sardar_Patel.html (1127 words)

	SuratOnline.com - Our Surat
		Vallabhbhai Patel was born on October 31, 1875, in a farme
		Vallabhbhai's superior organizational skills became evident while he was in high school at Petlad when he coordinated the entire campaign for a poor teacher who he thought deserved a seat on the local municipal committee.
		Vallabhbhai got his first opportunity to utilize Gandhiji's philosophy of satyagraha in 1918 for the farmers of Kaira who had lost their crops to heavy rains and floods that year.
	www.suratonline.com /AboutSurat/gujarat_people_svpatel.asp (1320 words)

	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Summary
		Patel was particularly attracted to Gandhi's inclination to action — apart from a resolution condemning the arrest of political leader Annie Besant, Gandhi proposed that volunteers march peacefully demanding to meet her.
		Vallabhbhai Patel was one of the first Congress leaders to accept the partition of India as a solution to the rising Muslim separatist movement led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
		Patel was a key force behind the appointment of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar as the chairman of the drafting committee, and the inclusion of leaders from a diverse political spectrum in the process of writing the constitution.
	www.bookrags.com /Sardar_Vallabhbhai_Patel (9466 words)

	Sardar Vallabhai Patel - Freedom Fighter
		Sardar Vallabhai Patel was born on the 31st of October 1875, in Gujarat.
		Vallabhbhai started his education in a Gujarati medium school and after middle school he switched over to English medium in the Nadiad High School.
		On 3oth January 1948, when Gandhiji was assassinated Sardar Patel was a totally shattered man. He had lost a dear friend and the guiding force of his life.
	www.gloriousindia.com /biographies/sardar_vallabhai_patel.html (552 words)

	AllRefer.com - Vallabhbhai Patel (South Asian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Vallabhbhai Patel[vul´´lub-bA´E putel´] Pronunciation Key, 1875–1950, Indian political leader.
		Patel played an important role in the negotiations that led to independence and the partition of the subcontinent into the two states of India and Pakistan.
		In 1947 he was made deputy prime minister of India and minister of state affairs.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Patel-Va.html (322 words)

	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport is an airport in Ahmedabad, India.
		Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport (IATA Airport Code:AMD, ICAO Airport Code : VAAH) is located at 23° 04′ 14″ N, 72° 37′ 37″ E.
		The airport services the metropolitan area of the city of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar and the terminals are physically located in the outskirts of North of Ahmedabad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sardar_Vallabhbhai_Patel_International_Airport (199 words)

	GujaratiNet - The online home of Gujaratis around the world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the "Iron Man of India", was born on October 31st, 1875 in Nadiad, Gujarat.
		Patel had a successful law practice, but as he became more influenced by the ideas of Gandhi he gave it up and threw himself into the campaign for Indian independence.
		Patel contributed very substantially to the deliberations of the Constituent Assembly, and it has not always been recognized but the protection and privileges guaranteed to minorities in the Indian Constitution owe much to Sardar Patel.
	www.gujaratinet.com /articles/index.php (455 words)

	Vallabhbhai Patel
		In obtaining this outcome Vallabhbhai Patel, the deputy prime minister, had been assisted by prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Lord Mountbatten, the governor-general.
		The doing of the neglected fourth son in a family of impoverished peasant proprietors, the lad with a chip on the shoulder who grew to become the key organiser of the 1920-47 freedom movements and then to inherit, along with Nehru, the authority of the departing Raj.
		Whether such an image quite takes Patel's age and health in 1947 into account, and whether public opinion in the India of 1947, which seemed strongly in Nehru's favour, would have allowed it, are moot questions.
	www.india-today.com /itoday/millennium/100people/patel.html (925 words)

	Tribuneindia... The fact File
		Vallabhbhai Patel was born on October 31, 1875, in Karamsad village in Gujarat.
		Patel, as a lawyer, knew that while a government had the right to collect taxes, it had no right to change the rate of tax arbitrarily.
		Patel’s efforts were so effective that all the peasants of Bardoli refused to pay the taxes, and they were even ready to face the consequences.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98nov28/saturday/fact.htm (620 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Lead Article
		This general apathy, I think, is largely attributed to the location of Vallabhbhai Patel’s correspondence which is deposited in an out of the way place like the Ahmedabad archives, and, as a consequence, is not easily available to Indian and foreign scholars.
		Patel, Rajendra Prasad, G.B. Pant, C. Rajagopalachari and Bhulabhai Desai thought that Nehru’s virulent campaign against these potentially powerful elements would be injurious to their interests in the forthcoming elections.
		Patel felt that the Congress was being destroyed by self-seeking individuals who were actuated by vaulting ambitions and petty intrigues.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20010930/spectrum/main1.htm (2187 words)

	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel was born on 31 October 1875 at Nadiad in Gujarat in an agriculturist family.
		After a course in law Vallabhbhai moved to Borsad in 1902, a town in the Kheda district, to set up practice as a defence lawyer.
		It was in 1928 that the villagers of Bardoli under the leadership of Vallabhbhai decided to go against the British Government on the issue of the increase of land revenue.
	rrtd.nic.in /sardarvallabhbhaipatel.htm (383 words)

	Short Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		But slowly Patel got interested as he realized that "this man was not a mere windbag - he was out for action." Patel himself says that in those early days "I was not concerned with his principles or with himsa and ahimsa.
		It was at this point that Vallabhbhai gave up his European dress for the dhoti/ kurta outfit and toured the villages of Kaira District along with Gandhiji.
		After the historic trial and imprisonment of Gandhiji in 1922 the leadership of the Congress fell on Patel and the way he reorganised Gujarat was marvelous.
	www.mkgandhi.org /short/ev62.htm (863 words)

	A National Memory Loss - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: India's Iron Man by Dr. Subhash Kapila
		It was the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhai Patel a towering but self-effacing leader on whom the appellation “Sardar” was bestowed by the people of Bardoli in Gujarat where he had led a very determined agitation against the British.
		Patel was all of these and this title continued as a prefix to his name.
		Sardar Patel with his eagle-eyed strategic vision and as a strong votary of political statecraft based on ‘political realism’ as opposed to ‘political idealism’ had given many warnings in writing to Nehru as the Prime Minister both on his Kashmir policies and also on his China policies.
	www.boloji.com /plainspeak/056.htm (1271 words)

	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
		Vallabhbhai Patel was born on October 31, 1875, in a farmer's family in Nadiad, Gujarat.
		Vallabhbhai matriculated from Nadiad High School in 1897.
		On March 12, 1930, Sardar Patel left for Dandi to prepare for Gandhiji's Salt satyagraha.
	www.liveindia.com /freedomfighters/9.html (1313 words)

	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
		Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was born in Gujarat on 31st of October 1875 into a family of patriots.
		In 1942 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was again sent to jail because of the start of the "Quit India Movement".
		Sardar Vallabhbhai passed away in Bombay on the morning of the 15th December 1950.
	www.netfundu.com /amulkids/personalities/spatel.htm (375 words)

	The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Patel would have handled Kashmir question differently: Governor
		It was Patel who persuaded them to merge their States with the rest of the country.
		The Governor said Patel's ability to sacrifice his personal comforts continued to inspire thousands of freedom fighters, who came in contact with him.
		Rao said Patel stood down in favour of Nehru for the presidentship of the Congress thrice, between 1929 and 1946, in deference to the wishes of Mahatma Gandhi, though the overwhelming majority of the Provincial Congress Committees opted for his candidature.
	www.hindu.com /2006/06/06/stories/2006060613760700.htm (449 words)

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		THE recent controversy over the proposed unveiling of a statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in the heart of the communally sensitive town of Gulbarga in northern Karnataka provides yet another instance of the reconstruction of history for the purpose of political mobilisation by communal parties and groups.
		The reason offered was J.H. Patel's inability to attend the function on account of other commitments; however, the real reason appears to have been fears that the issue could exacerbate communal tensions.
		The decision to install a statue of Vallabhbhai Patel to mark the 50th anniversary of 'Liberation Day' was announced by Malikkaya Guttedar, the State's Minister for Backward Classes and Minorities and the Minister in Charge of Gulbarga district, on September 17 last year.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/fline/fl1521/15210340.htm (1314 words)

	Indiaclub.com: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel - India’s Iron Man : Biography
		This biography of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is a comprehensive and vivid narration of his unique contribution to Mahatma Gandhi’s struggle for India’s freedom (1920-47).
		It was he who built the party machine through imposition of strict discipline and by giving it a mass base, and as party boss supervised and directed the functioning of the Congress ministries post-1937 provincial elections.
		Patel’s post-1945 role concerned India’s freedom, and also marked the end of his being Gandhi’s blind flower.
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	Vallabhbhai Patel - Sify.com
		As home minister, minister of states, and deputy prime minister (1947-50) under Jawaharlal Nehru, Patel adroitly achieved the peaceful integration of the princely Indian states into the Union.
		His swift, cool reaction to Gandhi's assassination in 1948 is widely believed to have averted a possible civil war.
		His swift, cool reaction to Gandhi's assassination in 1948 is widely believed to have averted a possible civil.
	sify.com /fullstory.php?id=13401421 (245 words)

	The great betrayal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In your editorial, you have expressed the view that the Congress behaviour towards Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel smacked of paranoia, even after your academic friend had explained to you that the Congress behaviour was not psychological but was real politic.
		He says : “Patel was the head of the Congress Parliamentary Board and the provincial Congress committees had expressed their preference for him as Azad’s successor.
		When I asked him how he reconciled this with his assessment of Patel’s as a leader, he laughed and said -Jawahar is the only Englishman in my camp-and seeing that he had aroused my curiosity further, he added Jawahar will not take the second place.
	www.hvk.org /articles/1200/14.html (691 words)

	PM, Advani pay tribute to Vallabhbhai Patel
		Leading the celebrations paying homage to the 'iron man', as Patel was popularly known, were Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Bharatiya Janata Party president and leader of opposition Lal Kishenchand Advani who paid floral tributes at the Patel's portrait in Central Hall of Parliament in a simple ceremony.
		During his four-year stint as Independent India's home minister, Patel played a significant role in the merger of more than 600 princely states into the Union and acquired the sorbiquet of 'iron man'.
		He was decorated with the title of 'Sardar' when he successfully led a farmer's struggle against imposition of 30% tax on agricultural land by the British at Bordoloi in Gujarat.
	inhome.rediff.com /news/2005/oct/31patel.htm (170 words)

	Bardoli
		Vallabhbhai Patel argued in court that the Government might have the right to collect taxes, but did not have the right to increase the tax rate arbitrarily, making the proposed tax increase or levy illegal.
		Led by Vallabhbhai Patel, the farmers of Bardoli continued to refuse to pay taxes, and this anti-tax campaign gained national interest with widespread admiration for the non-payment plan.
		Subsequently, Gandhiji referred to him as Sardar (Leader) Patel, and this title was thus conferred.
	www.spiritualjourneys.net /Venues/Bardoli.htm (172 words)

	About Sardar Patel
		This man of steel learnt early to be tough, for he was born as a middle child in a family of impoverished peasant proprietors.
		As Vallabhbhai would himself recall, his parents' hopes seemed centered on the eldest two sons, Soma and Narsi, and their affection on the youngest two, Kashi and the only daughter, Dahiba.
		And this strong man before whom rajas and maharajas trembled, and to whom rich men gave large funds for India's national movement, did not allow a rupee to stick to his fingers, and he saw to it that his children, a son and a daughter, lived simple lives during and after their father's lifetime.
	www.sardarpatelaward.com /aboutsardar.htm (405 words)

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