Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: India's iron man / Balraj Krishna

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 The Child, the Land, the People
2 Genius of a Schoolboy
3 Pleader Whom the Police Feared
4 A Great Ambition Fulfilled
5 A Rebel Enters Municipal Politics
6 Gandhi's Disciple
7 Gandhi's Deputy Commander
8 Birth of a New Congress
9 Nagpur Satyagraha
10 A Satyagraha to Fight Dacoits
11 Fighting Gujarat Floods
12 The Lenin of Bardoli
13 'John the Baptist'
14 President of Karachi Congress
15 A 'Mother to Gandhi'
16 The Party Boss
17 The God that Failed
18 Betrayal at Simla
19 Elections Prove Disastrous
20 The Cabinet Mission & Interim Government
21 Prelude to Partition
22 A Surgical Operation
23 Settling with the Princes
(a) Pre-Integration since 1927
(b) Checkmating British Designs
(c) The Revolt of C.P.
(d) Jinnah Fishes in Jodhpur Waters
(e) Jinnah Casts an Eye on Kathiawar
(f) Bhopal's Challenge and Surrender
(g) Junagadh's Accession to Pakistan
(h) Saviour of Kashmir
(i) 'Police Action' in Hyderabad
(j) Maharana Pratap's Dream Fulfilled
24 Outdoing Bismarck
25 A Secularist with a Difference
26 A Friend of Labour and Capitalists
27 The Great Administrator
28 Gandhi, Nehru, Patel
29 The Last Journey
30 Postscript