Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of India's greatest leaders in the Indian Independence Movement grew up in Karamsad.

The date of establishment of Karamsad is not exactly known, but during the era of Kumarpal i.e., in 1155 AD, the village consisted mainly of people from Koli tribes.

He renovated Lord Shiva's temple, which was in ruins and situated in the western side of the village.

His sons asked the Moghul Governor of Ahmedabad Province to let them keep Karamsad for revenue collection.

Of them, Majibhai's four sons and their descendants distributed themselves in six different Khadkis (street or lane before a group of two or more houses with a common gate) in Karamsad.

Both of his brothers had actually gone to the Petlad court, where a case was filed against the Rajput community by Mahijibhai's sons.

The local method at that time was by heating an iron rod and applying it over the affected part instantly.

When Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was staying at Nadiad, which was his maternal native, he had suffered from Bubo (an inflammatory swelling of a lymph gland) of the armpit.

Karamsad has always remained way ahead, be it in politics, education, religion, cooperative activities or industries in the Kheda District.

The yesterday's generation of Patidars have proved best themselves in different fields in Africa, Fiji, Myanmar (Burma), etc.

Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel borrowed books from a lawyer of his acquaintance and studied at home.

Vallabhbhai sent his elder brother Vitthalbhai, who himself was a lawyer, to England for higher studies in Law.

At the urging of his friends, Patel contested and won elections to become the sanitation commissioner of Ahmedabad in 1917.

Peasants asked for relief from the high rate of taxes but the British government refused.

Vallabhbhai supported Gandhi's Non-Cooperation Movement, and as president of the Gujarat Congress, helped in organizing bonfires of British goods in Ahmedabad.

In this hour of distress the British government raised the revenue taxes by thirty percent.

Sardar Patel took up cudgels on behalf of the farmers and appealed to the Governor to reduce the taxes.

Sardar Patel organized the farmers and told them not to pay even a single pie of tax.

It was during the struggle and after the victory in Bardoli that caused intense excitement across India, that Patel was increasingly addressed by his colleagues and followers as Sardar.

After the signing of Gandhi-Irwin pact in 1931, Sardar Patel was released and he was elected Congress president for its 1931 session in Karachi.

Upon the failure of the Round Table Conference in London, Gandhiji and Sardar Patel were arrested in January 1932 and imprisoned in the Yerwada Central Jail.

Patel invoked the patriotism of India's monarchs, asking them to join in the freedom of their nation and act as responsible rulers who cared about the future of their people.

He persuaded the princes of 565 states of the impossibility of independence from the Indian republic, especially in the presence of growing opposition from their subjects.

He tackled the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Nawab of Junagarh who initially did not want to join India.

Sardar Patel's efforts brought success, uniting a scattered nation without much bloodshed.

Karamsad is hometown to a large (& growing) number of non resident Indians (NRI's) Not only do they contribute to the development of the charotar region, they are also instrumental in creating & financing a lot of institutes.

In addition to NRI's, the local farming community is also very socially active The major product of the region is tobacco.

Travelling in the bylanes one is constantly reminded of this by the peculiar smell that pervades, almost like that of empty cigarette packs.

The area boasts of a large medical institute that is also a centre of undergraduate as well as postgraduate learning.

In the heart of karamsad village the heritage educational campus is serving the society since more than hundred years.