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.

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

While Bose's health improved, Patel's illness worsened.

In April 2001, New York State health officials withdrew Patel's license.

Following Patel's death on December 15, 1950, Rajaji was finally made Home Affairs Minister and went on to serve for nearly 10 months.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Patel's birthday, 31 October, is celebrated nationally in India as Sardar Jayanti.

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

In late 1938, Whorf's own health declined.

The use of cadmium in applications such as pigments, coatings, stabilizers and alloys declined due to environmental and health regulations in the 1980s and 1990s ; in 2006, only 7 % of total cadmium consumption was used for plating and coating and only 10 % was used for pigments.

Charlotte became pregnant soon after the marriage but her health declined rapidly and according to Gaskell, she was attacked by " sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness.

Andropov's health declined rapidly during the tense summer and fall of 1983, and he became the first Soviet leader to miss the anniversary celebrations of the 1917 revolution that November.

Atkins continued performing in the 1990s, but his health declined after being diagnosed again with cancer in 1996.

He was offered the governorship of the province of Africa, but declined it, either due to ill health or, as Tacitus claims, the machinations of Domitian.

Kelly's health declined steadily in the late 1980s, and a stroke in July 1994 resulted in a seven week hospital stay.

Tilden, however, was in poor health, and after he declined to be nominated, his supporters shifted to several other contenders.

His sixth and last marriage was to Catherine Parr, more a nursemaid to him than anything else, as his health was failing ( it had declined ever since the jousting accident in 1536 ).

As Hoxha's health declined, the first secretary began planning for an orderly succession.

Baroness Thatcher was also invited but declined to attend due to ill health.

He burst a blood-vessel in his lungs, and his health steadily declined.

As a result of the strain of managing the war effort directly and in close detail, Polk's health markedly declined toward the end of his presidency.

During the last decade of his life Marx's health declined and he became incapable of the sustained effort that had characterised his previous work.

His father ’ s health declined starting in 1939, and after a stroke in 1941, Alfried took over full control of the firm, continuing its role as main arms supplier to Germany at war.

In the late 1950s, while writing Titus Alone, Peake's health subsequently declined into physical and mental incapacitation, and he died on 17 November 1968 at a care home run by his brother in law, at Burcot, near Oxford.

The health of the Murray River has declined significantly since European settlement, particularly due to river regulation, and much of its aquatic life including native fish are now declining, rare or endangered.

Though he had been an active cyclist in his youth, his health seriously declined in his sixth decade.

His health declined still further after 1975, and he died of heart failure on 9 September 1981 in St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney.

Though her health declined as she entered her seventies, Parks continued to make many appearances and devoted considerable energy to these causes.

The Senate subsequently confirmed President Adams's nomination of John Jay to replace Ellsworth, but Jay declined to resume his former office, citing the burden of riding circuit and its impact on his health, and his perception of the Court's lack of prestige.

He was asked to manage Canada's team at the 2005 Ice Hockey World Championships, but declined due to his mother's poor health.

In later years his health declined, along with that of his elderly mother, and his depression deepened.

Towles ' health declined slowly from that time.

Māori always had a high birth rate ; that was neutralized by a high death rate until modern public health measures became effective in the 20th century when tuberculosis deaths and infant mortality declined sharply.