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India's first deputy prime minister and home minister, Patel, the 'Iron Man', integrated more than 560 princely states into the new country by persuasion and force, built the Indian civil service and defended order, private property and a strong unitary state.
Political axes
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel leans further toward militarist than 78% of the 560 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Diplomacy is where Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel stands furthest from the rest.
On Trade, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Right-wing current that unites free markets, traditional values, and an interventionist foreign policy, advocating the promotion of democracy and national interests through military force and global leadership.
Prioritizes national sovereignty, identity, and cohesion, associating them with right-wing positions such as social hierarchy, cultural conservatism, or immigration restriction. Currents vary in their views of the state and economy, from free markets to national protectionism.
Ideology that places the nation as the central value, defending its sovereignty, unity, and identity, and prioritizing the interests of the people and the nation-state over external influences and globalism.
The most distant ideology
GeoanarchismAnarchist29%
Prime Minister of India since 2014 and BJP leader, Modi joins Hindu nationalism, market reforms and digital infrastructure with protectionism and welfare, centralizes power, revoked Kashmir's autonomy and defends India's strategic autonomy.
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A state in western India and Narendra Modi's home, Gujarat has a vegetarian, Jain-influenced commercial culture, an industrial and export economy, the pro-business 'Gujarat model', alcohol prohibition and BJP dominance, and was a laboratory of Hindu nationalism.
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An aristocratic republic of antiquity, Rome balanced consuls, Senate, and tribunes of the plebs in a mixed system of elective magistracies, expanding across the Mediterranean through citizen legions and a strong cult of civic virtue.
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