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“Sardar Patel accomplished a silent revolution by ensuring the absorption and assimilation of a multitude principalities without shedding even a drop of blood.” Elucidate.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Consolidation as a Nation

Between 1947 and 1949, roughly 600 princely states — some with centuries of dynastic history — vanished as sovereign or semi-sovereign entities and were folded into the Indian Union.

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  • Why It Was a "Revolution"
  • Why It Was "Silent"
  • Testing the "Not a Drop of Blood" Claim
  • Where the claim holds
  • Where the claim strains
  • Patel's Specific Contribution to the Bloodlessness

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