Sardar Patel: Contribution to India’s Freedom Struggle

Vallabhabhai Patel is known for his successful accomplishment of
various Satryagraha movements, particularly the satyagraha at Bardoli, that earned him the coveted title of ‘Sardar’ and become a path-blazer for subsequent movements and developments in the Indian National Struggle. He was also an active participant in the non-violent Civil Disobedience Movement against the payment of raised taxes. Government had to surrender to this revolt and since then he was known as the Sardar Patel. If we view the freedom struggle as a one long succession of events, ultimately culminating in the attainment of its avowed objective of Independence, we find Sardar Patel enacting different roles in it at, different times, and at different places especially India.