Set of Two Sardar Patel Select correspondence 1945-1950 Sardar himself does not find very prominent mention in the book. There is an account of his youth, his family background, of how he became a barrister and practiced in Ahmedabad, and of how he left that practice to follow Gandhiji and thereby committed himself to a political career. Even in this brief account there are mistakes. It is not correct to say, as the authors have done, that Sardar left the land shortly after boyhood to work in the great textile mills of Ahmedabad. Any biography of sardar would have told the authors that, after passing his matriculation examination, Sardar read for law and set up practice that he saved enough money to send his brother and for himself to go to England to read for the bar. Another incident which is overdramatized is a narration of what happened to minute which Sardar recorded in a file, to which Mountbatten took exception and wanted withdrawn. As far as we know, there were in fact no tantrums, no obduracies. When the Governor-General explained to Sardar that he considered the minute as reflecting on the Governor-General personally, Sardar, true to his own generous instincts, without any fuss agreed to withdraw it. Sardar was a person who knew his mind, and concentrated on the vial issues before the country and the congress, of which he was the organizational head. He never created unnecessary difficulties over matters of trifling importance. In any case the account given, particularly in some cases the language used, casts doubts and its accuracy. Apart from these, the references to Sardar are brief, almost casual. But the omissions and inaccuracies in the book reflect on the personality of Sardar as it emerges from this correspondence, and it has therefore been considered necessary to add a brief postscript with reference to the book.