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Borsad Satyagrah
Borsad Satyagrah was one of the events of Indian Independence Movement. Borsad, a small town in Anand, faced dual tyranny in 1922: a string of daylight robberies by two armed dacoits, Babar Deva and Ali; and a perceived robbery by the British who had imposed a Rs 2.4 lakh one-time “punitive tax“ on the town's populace. Deva had committed 22 murders and to counter him the British secretly provided arms to Ali.

Movement
The peasants approached Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel. On Bapu's direction, Patel -who was a lawyer -gave Borsad residents the confidence to refuse to pay. Indian political leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and other freedom fighters came together against the nexus of police and local dacoits in the Borsad taluka even as the British Government prepared to levy a major tax for fighting dacoity in the area. More than 6,000 villagers assembled to hear Patel speak and supported the proposed agitation against the tax. The proposed tax was deemed immoral and unnecessary. Patel organized hundreds of Congressmen, sent instructions and received information from across the district. Every village in the taluka resisted payment of the tax, and through cohesion, also prevented the seizure of property and lands. After a protracted struggle, the government withdrew the tax. Historians believe that one of Patel's key achievements was the building of cohesion and trust among the different castes and communities which were divided on socio-economic lines. Many imminent freedom fighters like Ravishankar Maharaj also participated in this movement.

Outcome
On January 4, 1924, the British revoked the tax

--Wordlove88 (talk) 07:05, 28 May 2018 (UTC)