Word: sardar
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...flowers. Finally, at the cemetery, the dead man's son poured incense and ghee (semifluid butter) over the body and lit the pyre. Watching the rising flames, Jawaharlal Nehru sobbed. It was barely ten hours since a heart attack had brought death to long-ailing, 75-year-old Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Deputy Prime Minister of India...
True Talent. For all its hurry (which was in conformity to Hindu custom), the funeral which focused all India's eyes on Bombay last week was worthy of a prince -a fact which would have pleased tough, bull-necked Sardar Patel. The son of a farmer, Patel was 35 before he was able to afford to fulfill his dream of studying law at London's Middle Temple. And though he quickly won a reputation as a formidable criminal lawyer, it was only after Patel joined Gandhi's movement in 1916 that he discovered his true talent-politics...
Serving as Gandhi's right hand-some Indians said "fist" was a better word-Patel first showed a genius for leadership in his organization of civil disobedience campaigns against British land taxes, thereby won the unofficial title "Sardar" which means captain or leader. It was Patel whose iron will and political savvy converted the Indian National Congress from an association of petition writers into the effective organization which ran eight of India's eleven provinces even before the end of British rule...
Angriest of all was Deputy Prime Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who had been the Gandhi Fund's most persuasive agent among the industrialists. Last week Indian newspapers featured Patel's public reply to Dalmia. Said Patel: "If you will let me know what contributions you have made [I will return the money] and cleanse the fund from any taint which you have communicated to it . . . I do not see any possible connection between contribution to such a sacred object and escape from punishment for tax evasion...
...week-long round of mutual expressions of good will followed the pageantry of welcome. The betrothal of Rana's granddaughter to a Kashmiri prince was announced. Before going home, the guest of honor will receive a diamond-studded sword from India's Defense Minister Sardar Baldev Singh-an earnest of more up-to-date military aid to come...