<P> As the first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India , Patel organised relief efforts for refugees fleeing from Punjab and Delhi and worked to restore peace across the nation . He led the task of forging a united India , successfully integrating into the newly independent nation those British colonial provinces that had been `` allocated '' to India . Besides those provinces that had been under direct British rule , approximately 565 self - governing princely states had been released from British suzerainty by the Indian Independence Act of 1947 . Employing frank diplomacy with the expressed option to deploy military force , Patel persuaded almost every princely state to accede to India . His commitment to national integration in the newly independent country was total and uncompromising , earning him the sobriquet `` Iron Man of India '' . He is also affectionately remembered as the `` Patron saint of India 's civil servants '' for having established the modern all - India services system . He is also called the Unifier of India . </P>
<P> As the first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India , Patel organised relief efforts for refugees fleeing from Punjab and Delhi and worked to restore peace across the nation . He led the task of forging a united India , successfully integrating into the newly independent nation those British colonial provinces that had been `` allocated '' to India . Besides those provinces that had been under direct British rule , approximately 565 self - governing princely states had been released from British suzerainty by the Indian Independence Act of 1947 . Employing frank diplomacy with the expressed option to deploy military force , Patel persuaded almost every princely state to accede to India . His commitment to national integration in the newly independent country was total and uncompromising , earning him the sobriquet `` Iron Man of India '' . He is also affectionately remembered as the `` Patron saint of India 's civil servants '' for having established the modern all - India services system . He is also called the Unifier of India . </P>
who is known as iron man of india
who is known as iron man of india
Patel
Patel