A. D. Patel's father tried to persuade him to return and practice law in India and to help with the education of his younger siblings, but in the end helped pay his son ’ s fare from London to Fiji, where he arrived on 11 October 1928.

Patel's organising work in this period is credited by historians for ensuring the success of the rebellion across India.

Patel's appointment is based on heredity criteria but can be removed if not fit or suitable.

The main deities of worship for Leva Patel's is Shreenathji and Radha-Krishna as well as Lord Swaminarayan as the form of Akshar-Purushotum ( BAPS ).

Given Mountbatten's determination, Nehru and Patel's inability to deal with the Muslim League and lastly Jinnah's obstinacy, all Indian party leaders ( except Gandhi ) acquiesced to Jinnah's plan to divide India, which in turn eased Mountbatten's task.

Using frank diplomacy, backed with the option and use of military force, Patel's leadership persuaded almost every princely state which did not have a Muslim majority to accede to India.

Though feeling that the British would not quit immediately, Patel favoured an all-out rebellion which would galvanise Indian people, who had been divided in their response to the war, In Patel's view, an all-out rebellion would force the British to concede that continuation of colonial rule had no support in India, and thus speed power transfer to Indians.

Though Patel's health had suffered during his stint in jail, Patel gave emotional speeches to large crowds across India, asking people to refuse paying taxes and participate in civil disobedience, mass protests and a shutdown of all civil services.

The continuation of a divided and weak central government would in Patel's mind, result in the wider fragmentation of India by encouraging more than 600 princely states towards independence.

For many decades after his death, there was a perceived lack of effort from the Government of India, the national media and the Congress party regarding the commemoration of Patel's life and work.

* 1993: The biopic Sardar was produced and directed by Ketan Mehta and featured noted Indian actor Paresh Rawal as Patel ; it focused on Patel's leadership in the years leading up to independence, the partition of India, India's political integration and Patel's relationship with Gandhi and Nehru.

After Patel's death, the rebuilding continued under K. M. Munshi, another minister of the Government of India.

Gandhi asked all 16 states representatives and Congress to elect the right person and Sardar Patel's name was proposed by 13 states representatives out of 16, but Patel respected Gandhi's request to not be the first prime minister.

Among Patel's surviving family, Manibehn Patel lived in a flat in Mumbai for the rest of her life following her father's death ; she often led the work of the Sardar Patel Memorial Trust — which organises the prestigious annual Sardar Patel Memorial Lectures — and other charitable organisations.

Mountbatten was himself surprised by the ferocity of Sardar Patel's reaction to the issue.

When he was eighteen years old, Patel's marriage was arranged with Jhaverba, a young girl of twelve or thirteen years from a nearby village.

In 1909, Patel's wife Jhaverba was hospitalised in Bombay ( now Mumbai ) to undergo a major surgical operation for cancer.

Historians believe that one of Patel's key achievements was the building of cohesion and trust amongst the different castes and communities, which were divided on socio-economic lines.

Patel's arrest and Gandhi's subsequent arrest caused the Salt Satyagraha to greatly intensify in Gujarat — districts across Gujarat launched an anti-tax rebellion until and unless Patel and Gandhi were released.

Patel's position at the highest level in the Congress was largely connected with his role from 1934 onwards ( when the Congress abandoned its boycott of elections ) in the party organisation.

Historians believe that Patel's speech was instrumental in electrifying nationalists, who had been sceptical of the proposed rebellion.

Patel's decisiveness on the partition of Punjab and Bengal had won him many supporters and admirers amongst the Indian public, which had tired of the League's tactics, but he was criticised by Gandhi, Nehru, secular Muslims and socialists for a perceived eagerness to do so.

Patel's health declined rapidly through the summer of 1950.

Patel's health worsened after 2 November, when he began losing consciousness frequently and was confined to his bed.

In an unprecedented and unrepeated gesture, on the day after his death more than 1, 500 officers of India's civil and police services congregated to mourn at Patel's residence in Delhi and pledged " complete loyalty and unremitting zeal " in India's service.

Some historians have criticised Patel's actions on the integration of princely states as undermining the right of self-determination for those states.

Nehru's critics and Patel's admirers cite Nehru's belated embrace of Patel's advice regarding the UN and Kashmir and the integration of Goa by military action.

Proponents of free enterprise cite the failings of Nehru's socialist policies as opposed to Patel's defence of property rights and his mentorship of the Amul co-operative project.

Amongst the exhibits are many of Patel's personal effects and relics from various periods of his personal and political life.

As a special occasion, the MCC committee arranged the 1898 Gentlemen v Players match to coincide with his fiftieth birthday and he celebrated the event by scoring 43 and 31 not out, though handicapped by lameness and an injured hand.

Students will generally graduate from high school in the year of their 18th birthday if they were born between January 1 and August 31, but this varies by state depending on the kindergarten cut-off date, which ranges from August 1 in Missouri to January 1 in Connecticut.

During the siege of Meaux, Henry V contracted a fatal illness ( dysentery ) and died on 31 August 1422, just before his 35th birthday.

Selena died in a hospital from loss of blood at 1: 05 p. m. on March 31, 1995, 16 days before her 24th birthday.

The date and month are not disputed, as she required Westminster Abbey to celebrate her birthday on 31 May.

On 31 July 2010, Dame Judi performed Send in the Clowns at a special celebratory promenade concert from the Royal Albert Hall as part of the proms season, in honour of composer Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday, the entire concert in honour of his music.

On 31 May 2012, All Saints ' Church, Boughton Aluph held a concert to celebrate Deller's 100th birthday.

He celebrated his 60th birthday as a priest on 31 May 1917.

They married on his 25th birthday, July 31, 1917, and returned to live in Chicago.

There is a published letter Lamb wrote on 31 October 1796 ( just before her eleventh birthday ) that not only demonstrates her literacy, but also a merciless wit and talent for mimicry.

She would remain Queen regent until Wilhelmina's eighteenth birthday on 31 August 1898.

Current holidays: Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac day ( April 25 ), Queen's birthday ( June ) and Christmas Day ( December 25 ) and New Year's Day ( December 31 ),

That year, both Empire Day and Victoria Day were, by order-in-council and statutory amendment, respectively, moved to the Monday before May 25 and the monarch's official birthday in Canada was by regular viceregal proclamations made to fall on this same date every year between 1953 and January 31, 1957, when the link was made permanent by royal proclamation.

George Kuchar died on 6 September 2011 in San Francisco, just past his 69th birthday on August 31, of complications related to prostate cancer.

On May 31, 1955, the Smithsonian held a birthday party for Abbot, marking his 83rd birthday and his 60th year of association with the Smithsonian.

The date of independence was set as August 31, 1957which happened to be the Tunku's birthday, on the condition that an independent commission be set up to draft a constitution for the country.

This makes Adrian seventeen at the time of Glenn's conception in July 1984, and Sharon, who was in Adrian's year at school, so was born between 1 September 1966 and 31 August 1967, was either seventeen or close to her 17th birthday.

On 31 May 2008, she married her boyfriend, Spanish-based mortgage broker Michael Pattemore ( known on Loose Women as " Mr Spain ") at St Stephen Walbrook on her 60th birthday.

A royal proclamation issued on 31 January 1957 established the last Monday before 25 May as the Sovereign's Birthday ( in French: fête du souverain ), the date on which the reigning Canadian monarch's official birthday would be celebrated.

The official opening was on 31 May 1935, Chant's 70th birthday.

Compulsory education commences on 1 August of the calendar year of the child's 6th birthday, and it terminates on 31 July, when the child has received regular instruction for 10 years.

Junior Campbell joined on his fourteenth birthday on 31 May 1961, replacing McGovern, and Rodgers was then replaced, initially by two new lead vocalists, Billy Reid and Tommy Scott, although Reid soon departed, leaving Scott as the new frontman.

Sidlow's career was curtailed because of the Second World War which began when he was approaching his 24th birthday, having taken away the best years of his career he was almost 31 when he signed for the Reds.