TY - BOOK AU - Krishna, Balraj TI - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: India's iron man SN - 8129107317 U1 - 954.035092 PY - 2005/// CY - New Delhi PB - Rupa Publications KW - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel KW - Biography KW - India KW - History N1 - 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 ER -