Vithalbhai Patel was an Indian legislator and political leader, co-founder of the Swaraj Party and elder brother of Sardar Patel.
Vithalbhai Patel
Patel on a 1973 stamp of India
Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, commonly known as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, was an Indian independence nationalist and barrister who served as the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India from 1947 to 1950. He was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress, who played a significant role in the country's struggle for independence and its political integration. In India and elsewhere, he was often called Sardar, meaning "Chief" in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Persian. He acted as the Home Minister during the political integration of India and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947.
Sardar Patel in 1949
Painting of Sardar Vallabhai Patel as deputy prime minister that appeared in the 1948 issue of Chandamama magazine.
Azad, Patel, and Gandhi at an AICC meeting in Bombay, 1940
Somnath temple ruins, 1869