his colleagues and followers called patel as sardar vallabhai patel for the first time.
his colleagues and followers called patel as sardar vallabhai patel for the first time.
who called patel as sardar vallabhai patel for the first time?
his colleagues and followers
in 1928, bardoli taluka in gujarat suffered from famine. in this hour of distress the british government raised the revenue taxes by thirty percent. sardar patel took up cudgels on behalf of the farmers and appealed to the governor to reduce the taxes. the governor refused and the government even announced the date of the collection of the taxes. sardar patel organized the farmers and told them not to pay even a single pie of tax. the government tried to repress the revolt but ultimately bowed before vallabhbhai patel. it was during the struggle and after the victory in bardoli that caused intense excitement across india, that patel was increasingly addressed by his colleagues and followers as sardar.
karamsad
sardar vallabhai patel, the first deputy prime minister and home minister of india, said in early january 1948 that the rss activists were "patriots who love their country". he asked the congressmen to 'win over' the rss by love, instead of trying to 'crush' them. he also appealed to the rss to join the congress instead of opposing it. jaffrelot says that this attitude of patel can be partly explained by the assistance the rss gave the indian administration in maintaining public order in september 1947, and that his expression of 'qualified sympathy' towards rss reflected the long-standing inclination of several hindu traditionalists in congress. however, after gandhi's assassination on 30 january 1948, patel began to view that the activities of rss were a danger to public security. in his reply letter to golwalkar on 11 september 1948 regarding the lifting of ban on rss, patel stated that though rss did service to the hindu society by helping and protecting the hindus when in need during partition violence, they also began attacking muslims with revenge and went against "innocent men, women and children". he said that the speeches of rss were "full of communal poison", and as a result of that 'poison', he remarked, india had to lose gandhi, noting that the rss men had celebrated gandhi's death. patel was also apprehensive of the secrecy in the working manner of rss, and complained that all of its provincial heads were maratha brahmins. he criticised the rss for having its own army inside india, which he said, cannot be permitted as "it was a potential danger to the state". he also remarked: "the members of rss claimed to be the defenders of hinduism. but they must understand that hinduism would not be saved by rowdyism."
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