| Vallabhbhai Patel’s Bridge Board | |
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Vallabhbhai Patel |
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Bridge Board |
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Increases solidarity between members in own denomination. |
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Separates groups based upon religion, ethnicity or other heritage factors. |
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Origin[]
Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel (31 October 1875 – 15 December 1950) was an Indian independence activist and barrister who served as the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India from 1947 to 1950. He was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress, who played a significant role in the Indian independence movement and India's political integration. In India and elsewhere, he was often called Sardar, meaning "Chief" in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Persian. He acted as the Home Minister during the political integration of India and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947.
One of Mahatma Gandhi's earliest political lieutenants, he organized peasants from Kheda, Borsad and Bardoli in Gujarat in non-violent civil disobedience against the British Raj, becoming one of the most influential leaders in Gujarat. Appointed as the 49th President of Indian National Congress, the "Fundamental Rights and Economic Policy" resolution was passed by the Congress. Patel's position at the highest level in the Congress was largely connected with his role from 1934 onwards in the party organization. While promoting the Quit India Movement, Patel made a climactic speech to more than 100,000 people gathered at Gowalia Tank in Bombay on 7 August 1942. Historians believe that Patel's speech was instrumental in electrifying nationalists, who up to then had been skeptical of the proposed rebellion. Patel's organizing work in this period is credited by historians with ensuring the success of the rebellion across India.
As the first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India, Patel organized relief efforts for partition refugees fleeing to Punjab and Delhi from Pakistan and worked to restore peace. 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 1947. Patel, together with Jawaharlal Nehru and Louis Mountbatten persuaded almost every princely state to accede to India.
Patel's commitment to national integration in the newly independent country earned him the sobriquet "Iron Man of India". He is also remembered as the "patron saint of India's civil servants" for playing a pioneering role in establishing the modern All India Services system. The Statue of Unity, the world's tallest statue which was erected by the Indian government at a cost of US$420 million, was dedicated to him on 31 October 2018 and is approximately 182 meters (597 ft) in height.
After returning to India in his youth, Patel settled in Ahmedabad and became one of the city's most successful barristers. Wearing European-style clothes and sporting urbane mannerisms, he became a skilled bridge player, often playing with Gandhi during shared prison sentences.
Effects[]
Allows the user to designate groups of people as individual cards based upon genealogy. They can be split up by religion, ethnicity, language and other common cultural hallmarks. This cannot be used to cause disenfranchisement of a particular people, as it only makes it easier to coordinate them as a whole diaspora instead of individuals. Will deactivate when malicious intent is detected.
It raises the internal cohesion within one's own heritage groups. This promotes practicing one's traditions against removal by outsiders. But it may also bind a person to their own societal norms and neglect relations with others from lack of interest or distrust.