Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims

by Rafiq Zakaria

October 31, 2016 is the 141st Birth Anniversary of the Iron Man, India’s first home minister, Sardar Vallabhai Patel. In 1996, scholar and politician, Rafiq Zakaria delivered the Sardar Patel Memorial lecture titled “Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims.” (They were divided in two the first, dealing with the Sardar’s attitude to Indian Muslims before partition and the second, his role after partition) Excerpts from the Lectures that were thereafter published in a volume by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in 1996.

118 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1996