" UNKNOWN MANIBEN (Daughter of Shri Sardar Vallabai Patel) & an ungrateful Country" Maniben Patel was Sardar's only daughter. When only 16 she switched to Khadi and worked in Gandhi Ashram! When 17 she put all her gold bangles, earrings Gold Wrist Watch and all ornaments & jewelleries in a bundle of cloth and obtaining her Father's nod, deposited them in Gandhi Ashram, for the cause of freedom. All the garments Sardar used to wear after 1921 were woven out of the yarn made by Maniben. Unlike Nehru's daughter Indira, Maniben was a freedom fighter, who actively participated in the non-cooperation movement. In 1928, in the Bardoli Satyagraha she helped out Satyagrahis in Camps. She was arrested and Jailed in 1930 in the Salt Satyagraha! Thereafter, she was arrested and jailed on several occasions. Defying ban in Bardauli, arrested in 1932 again re-arrested for defying ban in Kheda and Sentenced to 15 months imprisonment, for arousing people in villages of Raj