Nehru vs Patel: Ideological rift, hardly a trivial one

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel has resurfaced in the politico-ideological discourse. Much of the debate, however, centres on who the real heir of his legacy is—the Congress or RSS—leading to a drift from historical accounts to political and polemical sloganeering. Fact is, Patel and Nehru represented two distinct ideological positions, personalities and worldviews. Prof. Rajni Kothari has rightly summed it up—their differences were indeed fundamental.

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