![]() He had no patiencewith an indifferent or lazy teacher. ![]() He took to studies as he took to play cheerfully. While he yielded to none in the captaincy of mischief or of slyattempts to hoodwink his elders, it was almost always in a good cause. The Sardar had won his first satyagrahic victory in the schoolroom. The vile practices of the teacher were fullyexposed and there was an end of it. His warningsto the latter to give up such profiteering being of no avail, he piloted a six-day strike in the school. Once he found a teacher makingblack-market profits in the sale of text-books and pencils. ![]() Several pleasant anecdotes current about his early school days at Nadiad, bear testimony to this. Right from his childhood Vallabhbhai could brook no indiscipline or injustice. Purity of personallife and service to fellow-men were their guiding religious tenets. His parents were noted for their tenacity of purpose and courage and these strongly influenced young Vallabhbhai. There was a raging spirit of patriotism in his family even at hisbirth. His forefathers were a virile and militant lot, and the Sardar was true to the stock from which hesprang. The Patidars of Nadiad to whom Vallabhbhai belonged hadplayed a notable part in the first war for India’s independence and hisfather Jhaverbhai too played no mean role. Karamsad, a village in Gujarat, the golden land of the peasants,claims the honor of having given birth to Vallabhbhai Patel on October31, 1875.
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