Sardar Vallabhabhai Patel India's Iron Man

Indias fight for freedom began within two decades of her crushing defeat in the Mutiny of 1857 also called Indias First War of Independence. In his great pride of a conqueror Lord Lawrence Humiliatingly asked the Indians: Will you be governed by the pen or the sword? The British nevertheless could not crush their spirit. It lay dormant over the next two decades but re-emerged first in 1875 with Bankim Chandra Chatterjis immortal national hymn Bande Mataram. The second was in 1876 with Surendrana...See More