Borsad is a key town and taluka in the district of Anand (previously Kheda). It is located around 17 km from Anand. It is surrounded by the fertile charotar region which largely produces tobacco, bananas, cotton, barley and other agricultural crops. A taluka is an administrative division in India below a district; called tahsil/tehsil in northern India. ... Look up Anand in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

In 1925, Indian political leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and his allies uncovered evidence suggesting that the police were in league with local dacoits in the Borsad taluka even as the 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, which 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 amongst the different castes and communities which were divided on socio-economic lines. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is credited by contemporary historians as being single-handedly responsible for overseeing the political integration of India. ... A taluka is an administrative division in India below a district; called tahsil/tehsil in northern India. ...