15/11/2020 Vallabhbhai Patel - Wikipedia

Quit India movement India (present-day

Integration after Independence and role of Patel Gujarat, India)
Cabinet mission and partition Died 15 December 1950
Political integration of India (aged 75)
Bombay, Bombay
Leading India
State, India
Father of All India Services
(present-day
Gandhi's death and relations with Nehru Mumbai,
Death Maharashtra)
Reception Cause of death Heart attack
Nehru and Patel Nationality Indian
Legacy Political party Indian National
Rashtriya Ekta Diwas Congress
Statue of Unity
Spouse(s) Jhaverben Patel
Other institutions and monuments (m. 1891; died 1909)
In popular media Children Maniben Patel
See also Dahyabhai Patel
Notes Alma mater Middle Temple
References Profession Barrister · Politician ·
Citations Activist · Freedom
Sources Fighter
Further reading Awards Bharat Ratna (1991)
Primary sources (posthumously)

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Early life
Patel, one of the six children of Jhaverbhai Patel and Ladba, was born in Nadiad, Gujarat.[10] Patel's
date of birth was never officially recorded; Patel entered it as 31 October on his matriculation
examination papers.[11] He belonged to the Leuva Patel Patidar community of Central Gujarat,
although after his fame, the Leuva Patels and Kadava Patels have also claimed him as one of their
own.[12]

Patel travelled to attend schools in Nadiad, Petlad, and Borsad, living self-sufficiently with other
boys. He reputedly cultivated a stoic character. A popular anecdote recounts that he lanced his own
painful boil without hesitation, even as the barber charged with doing it trembled.[13] When Patel
passed his matriculation at the relatively late age of 22, he was generally regarded by his elders as an
unambitious man destined for a commonplace job. Patel himself, though, harboured a plan to study
to become a lawyer, work and save funds, travel to England, and become a barrister.[14] Patel spent
years away from his family, studying on his own with books borrowed from other lawyers, passing his
examinations within two years. Fetching his wife Jhaverba from her parents' home, Patel set up his
household in Godhra and was called to the bar. During the many years it took him to save money,
Patel – now an advocate – earned a reputation as a fierce and skilled lawyer. The couple had a
daughter, Maniben, in 1904 and a son, Dahyabhai, in 1906. Patel also cared for a friend suffering
from the Bubonic plague when it swept across Gujarat. When Patel himself came down with the
disease, he immediately sent his family to safety, left his home, and moved into an isolated house in
Nadiad (by other accounts, Patel spent this time in a dilapidated temple); there, he recovered
slowly.[15]
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