4. Bardoli Satyagraha
Skills
• Influencing and team building
• Communication
• Negotiation
Behaviour
• Firmness
• Delegate minded
• Charismatic
• Empathetic
Influence Process
Sardar Patel influenced the farmers of
Bardoli village as he came out as an
efficient negotiator
Relevant Aspects of Situation
• High tax during natural disaster
• Poor Farmers and Lack of
Resources
• Patel stood up for tax elimination
• Nine months struggle
5. Integration of 565 states
Skills
• A Strong decision maker
• Political Foresight
• Strategic Planner
Behaviour
• Diplomatic
• Persuasive
• Persistent
• Stress tolerant
Influence Process
• Convinced princely states by great
vision of United India
• Integration with either Patriotic
feelings or threat by the power of
united India
Relevant Aspects of Situation
• British Government’s policy to
divide India into 565 small states
• Sardar’s vision to unite India for
political and economic development.
6. Comparison with other leaders
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Subhas Chandra Bose
7. Burning issue of Kashmir
Skills
• Proactive
• Prognosticate
Behaviour
• Analytical
• Imaginative
• Forward looking
Influence Process
Nehru declined Sardar’s advice which
has become the biggest mistake in
history of Integration of India.
Relevant Aspects of Situation
Sardar advised Nehru not to raise the
Kashmir issue in UN and to resolved it
that time only when the Army was
about to conquer Kashmir.
Nehru refused his advice and the issue
is still unsolved till today.
8. Achievements
• “Sardar” was given as forename to Vallabhbhai Patel
• Iron man of India
• Bharat Ratan Award
• National Unity day
• Statue of Unity
