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Vallabhbhai Patel
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[I tried to read it] as favourably to our Ambassador and the Chinese Government as possible, but I regret to say that neither of them comes out well as a result of this study...
— Letter to J. Nehru, 1950
Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the Republic of India (1875-1950)
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Lived 1875–1950, aged 75India
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He welded 565 fractious princely states into a single nation in the months after Partition, using persuasion, pressure, and the occasional show of force. Without Patel's work as India's first Home Minister, the map would look very different.
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Vallabhbhai Patel was born in Nadiad, Gujarat, on 31 October 1875, trained as a lawyer, and became one of Gandhi's earliest political lieutenants, organising peasants in Kheda, Borsad, and Bardoli in non-violent resistance against the British Raj. From 1934 he ran the Congress party's machinery from Bombay — fundraising, candidate selection, election strategy — and on 7 August 1942 delivered a speech to over 100,000 at Gowalia Tank that historians credit with igniting the Quit India rebellion nationwide. When independence came in 1947, Patel became Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister, orga…
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Vallabhbhai Patel
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The activities of the RSS constituted a clear threat to the existence of Government and the state.
— Letter to Syama Prasad Mookerjee, July 18, 1948, Sardar Patel Correspondence, vol. VI, p. 323. Quoted in . “Sectional President’s Address:
Vallabhbhai Patel
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…we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that an appreciable number of the members of the Mahasabha gloated over the tragedy and distributed sweets.
— Letter to Syama Prasad Mookerjee, May 6, 1948, Sardar Patel Correspondence, vol. VI, p. 66. Quoted in . “Sectional President’s Address:
Vallabhbhai Patel
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It should not surprise Muslims if doubts were entertained about their loyalty. They could not ride on two horses.
— Patel complaining about the Indian Muslims' silence over Kashmir in a speech in Lucknow in 1948, quoted in B.D. Graham: Hindu Nationalism
Vallabhbhai Patel
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So far as abductions are concerned, there is not a single village or town in the West Punjab which has not suffered.
— Letter by Sardar Patel to Sardar Sahib, 6 October 1947. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Holocaust_of_Indian_Partition/JktuAAAAMAAJ
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