Historical Figures

21. Vallabhbhai learned all the tricks of business success

The barrister's examination was passed but there was still some time to get the degree. So Sardar decided to spend his stay in London in a new way. He went to the courts of London and studied their system and functioning closely. There was a difference of day and night between the functioning of the courts of a subordinate country and the functioning of the courts of the ruling country.

Vallabhbhai understood this difference and its reasons. Vallabhbhai studied the social system and civil rights of London. He was very surprised to know that the British who used to violate the civil rights of people all over the world, how much more aware and ready they were for civil rights in their country!

Vallabhbhai also deeply examined the ways of living, eating, walking, speaking and interacting of the British. He learned the way of eating and dressing like the British and adopted it completely, but he remained a vegetarian for life. He learned all the tricks of business success.

Now there was hardly any lawyer in India who could face this determined, hard-working and wonderfully talented barrister. The young man whose wife had died, the children spent their childhood under the tutelage of an English woman, who had struggled with poverty all her life, who had given away all her acquired wealth to her brothers and who had never shied away from hard work. Didn't steal it, how could anyone face it!