Patel history is that they moved from punjab in search of water and land, some stayed in Rajesthan, some went to MP, some came to Gujarat and few crossed over to Maharashtra now called patil, these people used to take land on pata and slowly people started calling them patidar and later became. patel SINCE THEY MOVED FROM PUNJAB, many people think that they may be from jat community but seeing traits of patel and jat, I doubt that they were among us some time back, major difference is patel can sacrifice every thing for money, where as jat never gave undue importance to money, secondly they are very selfish people, but very successful, Along with agricalture, they adopted business, they prefer business even over good service also most of the service people do some business in extra time even elderly people manage shop etc, I had been requsting jats to adopt some business.