The course of events that led to the Bardoli satyagraha can be described as under:

(1) The Bardoli peasant agitation had the sympathy of educated persons and also nationalist
leaders. Vallabh Bhai Patel was contacted by the local leaders to take up the leadership of
movement. A meeting of representatives of 60 villages at Bamni in Kadod division invited
Sardar Patel to lead the campaign. The local leaders also contacted Gandhiji and after having
assured him to observe non-violence, seriously launched the movement.