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The Man who saved India!
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The Man who saved India!

I listened to the audio version of ‘The Man who saved India, Sardar Patel and his Idea of India’ by Hindol Sengupta twice but there are a few howlers in the audio version of the book by the narrator.(e.g., he reads 1908 as 2008 etc). But this book certainly filled my “knowledge gap” about one of the great personalities in the Indian Freedom movement. The book published in 2018 provides a detailed picture of life and times of Vallab bhai Patel, one of the trinity of freedom struggle spearheaded by Indian National Congress. As stated by Rajmohan Gandhi, another biographer of Patel, and as quoted in the introduction to this book while fulsome credit has been given to the other two, Gandhi and Nehru, the credit given to Patel has been niggardly. This book is invaluable to a student of ...