Vallabhbhai Patel, known as Sardar Patel, was an Indian lawyer, independence activist and statesman who became the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India. Born in Gujarat in 1875 and trained as a lawyer, he built a successful legal practice before joining the movement of Mahatma Gandhi, where he organised peasants of Kheda, Borsad and Bardoli in nonviolent civil disobedience against British rule. He rose to lead the Indian National Congress as its president and as its main fundraiser and organiser of candidates in the 1930s. After independence in 1947 he oversaw the political integration of the princely states into India and the founding of the modern All India Services. He died in 1950.
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was an Indian independence activist, lawyer and statesman
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was an Indian independence activist, lawyer and statesman
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He was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress
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He was a successful lawyer.
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served as the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India from 1947 to 1950
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Patel, Vallabhbhai Vallabhbhai Patel 1875 1950
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