The unifier
Published on: Oct. 31, 2025, 5:30 a.m. | Source: The Hitavada
even as the nation celebrates the 150th birth anniversary of sardar vallabhbhai patel, the great unifier of post-independence india, the details of his contribution to nation-building well up in public memory. that he was india’s first deputy prime minister and home minister following the exit of the british, actually, come up only as incidental details of his biography. what really matters most to the nation’s history of those tumultuous moments is the manner in which he convinced more than 600 princely st
