Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: The Republic Of India

Dr. Rajendra Prasad once said that – “The achievements of Sardar will be written in letters of gold and will occupy an immortal place in the history of India.”
One would not disagree that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was one of the most important leader for the republic of India. He was known to be social leader of India who played a major role in the country's struggle and revolution for independence and guided its integration into a united and independent nation. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was an Indian barrister, statesman and the leader of the Indian National Congress. He was also the First Deputy Prime minister of India. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel became one of the most influential leaders in Gujarat. As a part of politics, he organized the party …show more content…
On the heaven land of India, there were more than 550 separate princely states existed. These states at the time of independence were than given choice to either be a part of Pakistan or of India or to remain independent. Some of these states are Jammu and Kashmir, Baroda, Mysore, Hyderabad. Patel bargained, coaxed, and threatened the 562 kings into giving up their rule and surrender to the Indian Union. Even when threats failed, Patel did not shrink from the use of armed force, as in the case of both the tiny state of Junagarh, and the much larger state of Hyderabad. In the case of Jammu and Kashmir, however, Patel played a strongly supportive idea. Without the help and presence of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, these sates would have been different countries and the idea of a unified India was unimaginable or rather say impossible. Patel ownself took charge to integrate and negotiate more than five hundred self-governing policies so that a whole big nation could be formed. His serious dedication and hard work after all ensured the union of those princely states in just 2.5 years. He also opposed the demands for the reorganization of the internal boundaries of the Indian states on linguistic grounds as a potential threat to Indian unity, and favored the adoption of Hindi as the official language of the country. Patel gave a major contribution to integrate the people of …show more content…
His most important interventions involved the support for measures that strengthened the central government in relation to the states and governmental authority on the prospect of society, protecting private property against government expropriation without adequate compensation, and promoting the unity of the Indian peoples. He supported a clause in the constitution of India, that was article 356, empowered the central government to take control over the administration of any state under certain circumstances, the payment of privy purses in perpetuity to the former Indian princes in compensation for the loss of their kingdoms, the right of dispossessed landlords to adequate compensation for their land, the maintenance of the status and an importance in government of the Indian Civil Service, renamed the Indian administrative service, and abolished the system of separate electorates for Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs. Although he had belief in the secularism of the India, he adopted a patronizing attitude towards the Muslims who remained in India after partition and on the other hand accepted patriotic Indians as the members of the militant Hindu organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh