Sardar Patel : An Icon of India’s Unity (Hardcover)

Part I 1. Introduction Part II Sardar Patel: Service, Secularism and Security 2. Service as a Response to Risk and Uncertainty: Patel and the Role of the Public Service Officer 3. Sardar Patel, Secularism and the Question of Minorities in India 4. Internal Security of India: The Sardar Patel’s Perspective 5. Tibet and India-China Border Dispute: Some Reflections on Sardar Vallbhbhai Patel’s Perspective 6. Sardar Patel on India’s Foreign Policy Part III Integrating India 7. The Essential Patel: Scanning his Ideas and Practices 8. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s Contribution towards Modern India 9. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: The Symbol of National Unity and Integrity 10. Sardar Patel and the Making of India 11. Sardar Patel: The Princes, the Purses and the Consolidation of India 12. Patel’s Pragmatism about Jammu and Kashmir Part IV: Patel, Nehru and Ambedkar 13. Patel and Nehru: The Divergence and Convergence 14. Sardar Patel, B.R. Ambedkar and the Making of Indian Constitution Part V: The Cinematic Representation 15. Ketan Mehta’s Sardar: A Perspectival Approach to History