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...believed in his liberal values, and were determined to keep his nation in one piece. Some of these early leaders, like Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister, became world celebrities, but readers will discover other colossi who made the miracle of Indian democracy possible-men like Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel, who coaxed the rulers of over 500 technically independent Indian kingdoms to give up their crowns and join the new nation, and Jayaprakash Narayan, the socialist who opposed moves to curtail civil liberties in the 1960s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desert Blossom | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...country. (For all his vaunted selflessness and modesty, he made no move to object when Jinnah was attacked during a Congress session for calling him "Mr. Gandhi" instead of "Mahatma," and booed off the stage by Gandhi's supporters. Later, his withdrawal, under pressure from Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel, of a last-ditch offer to Jinnah of the prime ministership itself, ended the last faint chance of avoiding partition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mohandas Gandhi | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...impose on them. This was strongly contested by the Christian members of the House, who maintained that constitutional rights apply equally to all, and that the right to propagate religion has no meaning without the right to convert. Maniben Patel, spinster daughter of the late Congress Party strongman, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, countered with a demand that the government investigate all Christian missionaries, accusing them of being responsible for damage to Hindu temples in Travancore-Cochin and of discriminating against Hindu nurses in Christian hospitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: You Have No Place | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL AFFAIRS,WAR IN ASIA,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,PEOPLE,OTHER EVENTS: The President & Congress | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...Finally, at the cemetery, the dead man's son poured incense and ghee (semifluid butter) over the body and lit the pyre. Watching the rising flames, Jawaharlal Nehru sobbed. It was barely ten hours since a heart attack had brought death to long-ailing, 75-year-old Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Deputy Prime Minister of India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Rising Flames | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

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