Leva Patidar Patels Of Charotar
by Anjana N.Patel and Natvarbhai D.Patel

The Leva Patidar Patels of Charotar:A Community History provides unique insight into the political and socail events which shaped the lives of a cummunity successfully made the transition from being an international community made up of city dwellers,but still able to identify with the land they called Charotar.Each chapter of the book presents a diffrent faceet of significant events as seen from the giving names, the origins of the Leva Patidar community, the origin and menaing of the surname "Patel" the traditional system of social organization, the resons for the impact of mass migration and a snapshot of the position of the Leva Patidar Patel community living in Britain in the year 2000.