00000nam a22000008i 4500 20260913094727.0 260919s2018 ii 00 0 eng d 9789388162517 DS481.P35K86 2018 954.035092 23 Dr. Vibhu Kumar Sardar Patel and Freedom Movements in India / Dr. Vibhu Kumar. New Delhi 2018. 240 pages Variously hailed as the Iron Man of India, Mahatma’s Muscle Man, Lenin of Bardoli, Chanakya-cum-Bismarck and saviour and architect of New India, Sardar Patel was a robust statesman in the Gandhi-Nehru-Patel triumvirate, which was responsible for shaping India’s destiny during the freedom struggle. Modern Indian history is incomplete without Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. His vision, his work, and his principles were highly remarkable in Independent India. He rose to the leadership of the Indian National Congress, in which capacity he organised the party for elections in 1934 and 1937 even as he continued to promote the Quit India Movement. As the first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India, Patel organised relief efforts for refugees fleeing from Punjab and Delhi and worked to restore peace across the nation. He led the task of forging a united India, successfully integrating into the newly independent nation those British colonial provinces that had been “allocated” to India. Besides those provinces that had been under direct British rule, approximately 565 self-governing princely states had been released from British suzerainty by the Indian Independence Act of 1947. This book is an account of Vallabhbhai Patel’s contribution to the freedom struggle of India and Indian National Congress. Patel, Vallabhbhai, 1875-. Nationalists—India—Biography. Statesmen—India—Biography. India—Politics and government—20th century. India—History—Autonomy and independence movements. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century bisacsh