Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Guardian UK: India prompts protests with unveiling of world's biggest statue - Local groups complain about cost of 182-metre-high tribute to nationalist hero

The 182-metre sculpture of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, known as the Statue of Unity to commemorate his efforts to corral hundreds of princely states into the Indian union after independence, was revealed on Wednesday by the prime minister, Narendra Modi.