Encyclopaedia on Sardar Patel

The history of India would have been different had. Sardar Patel not been the Deputy Prime Minister when India became independent in 1947.Thetriumvirate-Gandhiji, Nehru and Sardar Patel were responsible for giving direction to the destiny of the country. Sardar Patel consolidated the country into one united whole in a unique manner. On the eve of their departure, the British government announced that its paramountcy would lapse not only over the British territory but even over the native States.