Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at 100

Howard Spodek This evaluation of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel emphasises the earlier years in which Vallabhbhai be- came the Municipal Councillor, 1917-22, and subsequently the President of the Ahmedabad Municipality, 1924-26; the "suba of Borsad", 1924; and after the Bardoli satyagrafia of 1928, "the Sardar". It is based primarily on his activities in Gujarat.