[Unity\nis the strength of any society and it (society) is weak without it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hence\nthose who wish the good of the nation strongly praise unity.<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well\nsaid by someone, unity is the reflection of strength. Today when we talk of\nunity we do remember our Sardar who contributed in forming a nation, India.\nFreedom was our foremost dream but uniting the 562 princely states into one\nnation was also an unaccomplished and uphill task. It looks simple but it is\nnot as simple. With differences in religion, caste and culture we were\nclustered into one Nation. Lord Macaulay\u2019s speech in the British parliament on\nFebruary 2, 1835 speaks the same as to what unity in India stands for and how\nGreat Britain conquered this nation\u2014\u201cI have travelled across the length and\nbreadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a\nthief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people\nof such calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless\nwe break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural Sardar\nhe was of this country, an Architect who built this nation through his vision.\nBorn in 1875 to Jhaverbhai and Laadbai in a farmer\u2019s community and determined\ntowards his goals he achieved success at every level of his life. Despite being\nson of a poor farmer he became a barrister. He participated in the legal issues\nsuch as Kheda and Bardoli Satyagrahas and other such freedom struggles, for\nwhich he was even put twice in imprisonment and from there he was known as\n\u201cSardar\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On\nAugust 15, 1947, India was finally declared an Independent nation, already\nPakistan took its share with the wants of more lust, but we were left with the\nprincely states and their communal disharmony with refugee crisis. This reminds\nme of Lord Macaulay and his statement about India in the British parliament. It\nwas a high time to unite this country, as our backbone was already broken by\nGreat Britain. Meanwhile, Patel got the responsibility of merging the states\ninto one nation and Gandhiji had a firm belief in Patel. Assisted by V.P.\nMenon, the work started to merge the nations as a part of Akhand Bharat. These\nprincely states like Gwalior, Patiala, Bikaner and many more proactively merged\nwith the country but states like Travancore, Hyderabad, Junagadh, Bhopal and\nKashmir were hesitant to join India. Step by step these princely states joined\nthe country either voluntarily or with force. Patel became the first Deputy\nPrime Minister of India and also the country\u2019s first Home Minister. Patel was\namong the few who suggested that Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar should be in the\nConstitutional Panel, and suggested law against cruelty based on casteism.\nSardar also amended the Indian Civil Services Code (Indian Civil Services Act,\n1861) to Indian Administrative Services as per the bureaucratic structure of\nIndia. Today\u2019s AMUL was yesterday\u2019s Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers\u2019\nUnion Limited, and this was the idea of Patel who guided the farmers of Gujarat\nand exhorted them to organise the processing and sale of the milk. Patel was\namong the few who strongly supported the partition of India. According to him,\nJinnah was supported by Muslims and if Partition was denied then there would be\na major civil war between Hindus and Muslims. Even the 562 princely states\nwould have asked for independent nation status and forming of a nation would\nnot have been possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After\nthe death of Gandhi, the responsibility of the country was on the shoulders of\nNehru and Patel, and both played their role effectively. Patel just got less\nthan four years to serve this nation as a Union Cabinet Minister before he died\nin 1950, but even in those years he worked eagerly and endlessly. The Iron Man\nof this nation who stood firmly for this country, one of the most important\npillars of this country, the one who formed a Nation out of nations left us on\nDecember 15, 1950. Even China did not dare to antagonise India when Patel was\nalive; indeed it took China twelve years to declare war against India after\nPatel\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today,\nwhen we look back at 1947, the time when both the Nations were liberated we do\nlook at them with wide difference. India is stepping towards its progress and\non the other hand, Pakistan is still struggling for the survival of its\ndemocracy. India is one of those prominent countries which could have been\neasily divided on the ground of sensitive issues but this did not happen nor it\nwill happen as we are tied with one knot, the knot of unity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On\nPatel\u2019s 143rd birth anniversary what else can we give to him, rather than\nbuilding the world\u2019s tallest statue? Sometimes we do forget that this Republic\nof India would not have been the world\u2019s largest democracy without that Sardar.\nToday if in our country we have twenty-nine States and seven Union Territories\nthen this would not have been possible without that Sardar and if we rank\nourselves as the 7th largest economy and in terms of area if we rank 7th then\nit is only because of that Sardar. For me even that statue is a small\ncontribution compared with what Patel gave to us, but today he can see his own\nnation from 182 metres of his height for which he contributed day and night.\nFrom Indira Col (Jammu and Kashmir) to Cape Comorin (Kanyakumari) and from\nKibithu (Arunachal Pradesh) to Sir Creek (Gujarat): if we call ourselves\nIndians, then it is only because of that Sardar. If Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel\nalong with V.P. Menon had not merged this country into one nation then\ncertainly today we would have been divided into numerous states. To move from\none state to another, to get water from the rivers flowing or the dams through\nthese 562 states we would have had to take permission. Pakistan and China were\neagerly waiting and are still waiting as to when this country will split and\nwhen they will satisfy their infinite greed. Even when U.S.S.R. was split it\nlooked small, indeed without its union it is just powerless, imagine this with\nIndia. When Britishers divided the nation, the division was on the basis of\nIndia and Pakistan, the princely states were given option to join either of the\nboth or to remain united, but it was because of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel\u2019s\ncontribution that we are living as one nation. If India being a nation with\nimmense number of religions, castes, creeds and languages is incredible in its\nform than it is because of that Iron Man. Sardar said, \u201cWe have to shed mutual\nbickering, shed the differences of being high or low and develop the sense of\nequality. We have to live like the children of the same father.\u201d This showed\nthat Sardar was a mere nurturer of his countrymen. Even after 68 years of his\ndeath, the iron man is still alive in the hearts of every Indian. It is high\ntime every Indian united not only through a nation but through their hearts;\nthis was what Sardar dreamed of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sardar\nPatel was not only the architect of this country but also the engineer who\nbuilt this nation with inclusion of a variety of flavours. Today, before\ncalling ourselves as a Hindu, Muslim or Christian we do call ourselves first\nIndians. Might be there are thousands of differences with our costumes, culture\nand food habits but still we live like as if we are a family. Internally,\nhowever, there might be differences but when an invader tries to invade us we\nfoil the plan with the sole voice calling ourselves Indians. All this was\npossible because of our Iron Man, who made us so bold with our belief that we\nthink unity as our strength. In coming years, India will definitely climb the\nsteps of superpower and one of the reasons behind its being a superpower would\nbe its unity.\n\n\u201cManpower without unity is not a strength unless it is harmonised and\nunited properly, then it becomes a spiritual power\u201d was the belief which\nSardar Patel nurtured.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Architect Of Independent India [Unity is the strength of any society and it (society) is weak without it. Hence those who wish the good of the nation strongly praise unity.] Well said by someone, unity is the reflection of strength. 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\nheritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education\nsystem, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and\nEnglish is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem,\ntheir native self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly\ndominated nation.\u201d The Britain did this successfully by dividing the nation and\nruled over us for almost 200 years. Even before them we were ruled for\nthousands and thousands of years by many: French, Portuguese, Mughals,\nChandragupta Maurya and many more but today we firmly call ourselves part of\none nation, India. The credit for this goes to a man who deeply went to the\nroots of division and gathered them under one tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n