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      • Passed Away: 15 December 1950 Memorial: SardarVallabhbhai Patel National Memorial, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
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  2. It now hosts the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Memorial, which is a museum and exhibition centre dedicated to Vallabhbhai Patel located in Shahibaug, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, near Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad. It is surrounded by well laid gardens.

  3. Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel (Gujarati: [ʋəlːəbːʰɑi dʒʰəʋeɾbʰɑi pəʈel]; ISO: Vallabhbhāī Jhāvērabhāī Paṭēla; 31 October 1875 – 15 December 1950), commonly known as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, [a] was an Indian independence activist and barrister who served as the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India ...

  4. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 215472560. Source citation. Statesman. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was a senior leader of Indian National Congress and a prominent figure in the Indian Freedom Struggle, who later became India's first Deputy Prime Minister and first Home Minister.

    • October 31, 1875
  5. At the entrance of the octagonal shaped Memorial building are the busts of Veer Vithalbhai Patel and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. In the centre of the Memorial building is the huge 500 seat air-conditioned amphitheatre like auditorium popular for cultural, educational and certain permitted events.

    • Vallabhbhai Patel’s Early Life
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    • Patel’s Journey to England
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    • Sardar Patel – The Social Reformer
    • Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel – as Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister
    • Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s Role in The Integration of The Princely States
    • Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and All-India Services Like IAS
    • Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel as The First Prime Minister of India?

    Vallabhbhai Patel was born in Nadiad, Gujarat, on October 31, 1875 (His birth anniversary is now observed as National Unity Day or Rashtriya Ekta Diwas). He hailed from a farmer’s family. In his early years, Patel was considered by many as an unambitious man destined for a commonplace job. However, Patel proved them wrong. He passed law examination...

    Patel had a dream to study law in England. Using his hard-earned savings, he managed to get a pass and a ticket to go to England. However, the ticket was addressed to ‘V.J. Patel’. His elder brother Vithalbhai also had the same initials as Vallabhai. Sardar Patel came to know that his elder brother too cherished a dream to go to England for studies...

    In 1911, at the age of 36, two years after the death of his wife, Vallabhbhai Patel journeyed to England and enrolled at the Middle Temple Inn in London. Patel finished at the top of his class despite having had no previous college background. He completed the 36-month course in 30 months. Returning to India, Patel settled in Ahmedabad and became o...

    In the initial stages of the freedom movement, Patel was neither keen on active politics nor the principles of Mahatma Gandhi. However, the meeting with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Godhra (1917) fundamentally changed Patel’s life. Patel joined the Congress and became the secretary of the Gujarat Sabha that became a Congress stronghold later. On G...

    After the signing of the Gandhi–Irwin Pact, Patel was elected president of Congress for its 1931 session (Karachi). Congress committed itself to the defence of fundamental rights and civil liberties. Patel advocated for the establishment of a secular nation. Minimum wages for workers and the abolition of untouchability were among his other prioriti...

    Patel worked extensively against alcohol consumption, untouchability, caste discrimination and for women emancipation in Gujarat and outside.

    After Independence, he became India’s first Deputy Prime Minister. On the first anniversary of Independence, Patel was appointed as the Home Minister of India. He was also in charge of the States Department and the Information and Broadcasting Ministry As the first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India, Patel organised relief efforts for...

    Sardar Patel despite his failing health and age never lost sight of the larger purpose of creating United India. As India’s first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Sardar Patel played a key role in the integration of about 565 princely states into the Indian Union. Few princely states like Travancore, Hyderabad, Junagadh, Bhopal and Kashmir ...

    Sardar Patel was of the opinion that wewill not have a united India if we do not have a good all-India Service. Patel was clearly conscious of the fact that independent India needed ‘a steel frame to run its civil, military, and administrative bureaucracy. His faith in institutional mechanisms like having an organized command-based army and a syste...

    In the AICC Session of 15th January 1942 held at Wardha, Gandhiji formally designated Jawaharlal Nehru as his political successor. In Gandhiji’s own words “… not Rajaji, not Sardar Vallabhabhai, but Jawaharlal will be my successor…When I am gone, he will speak my language”. Thus, it can be seen that it was none other than Gandhiji who wanted Nehru ...

  6. Sardar Patel was born Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel in 1875, at Nadiad, Gujarat, British India, in a middle-class agricultural family of Lewa Patidar community. There is no official record of his date of birth, but October 31 is mentioned as his date of birth on his matriculation exam papers.

  7. SARDAR VALLABHBHAI PATEL. Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, one of the six children of Jhaverbhai Patel and Ladba, was born in Nadiad, Gujarat. There is no record of his date of birth. The generally accepted date, October 31, 1875, of which the source is his Matriculation certificate, was chosen by Vallabhbhai himself while filling in a form.