V p menon biography
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VP Menon’s biography: Was the man who charmed the princes really the architect of modern India?
With Kashmir once again in the limelight, it could not have been a better time to publish a book about VP Menon, subtitled “The Unsung Architect of Modern India.” Nor, indeed, when recent narratives have sought to embrace Sardar Ballabhbhai Patel, the iron man of India, as the leader who, given a free hand, would have saved the country from its fractured legacy – or, at least, since Partition proved to be inevitable, as an individual who might have welded all the disparate pieces together under a different dispensation, that is to say, a Hindu Raj. That is the current narrative, not necessarily one that Patel would have endorsed.
One can also question various small niggles with regard to the title. In VP Menon’s own superb account, “The Story of the Integration of the States”, published in to fulfil a promise he had made to his mentor, Patel, he describes the trajectory that was to lead
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VP Menon: The forgotten hero who stitched India together
India correspondent
India was on the spets of freedom from British rule in and Vappala Pangunni Menon was completely worn out.
Three decades of working in the grinding imperial bureaucracy had taken its toll on the tenacious year-old civil servant.
Menon was "exhausted, overworked, already coughing ominously", his biographer Narayani Basu recorded. He had worked as a key tjänsteman on political and constitutional reforms to successive viceroys and helped in drafting a crucial transfer of power strategi. He had not taken leave from work in years.
Menon was looking forward to a quiet retirement once the transfer of power celebrations ended on 15 August, the day India gained independence.
By naturlig eller utan tillsats a conservative, he was an ally of the independence hero and församling party leader Vallabhbhai Patel. Now Patel summoned him again. The doughty leader was the minister
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V. P. Menon
Indian civil servant (–)
In this Indian name, the toponymic surname is Vappala. It is not a family name, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Pangunni Menon.
Vappala Pangunni MenonCSI CIE (30 September – 31 December ) was an Indian civil servant who served as Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of the States, under Sardar Patel. By appointment from Viceroy and Governor-General of IndiaWavell, he also served as Secretary to the Governor-General (Public) and later as Secretary to the Cabinet. He also was the Constitutional Adviser[1][2] and Political Reforms Commissioner to the last three successive Viceroys (Linlithgow, Wavell and Mountbatten) during British rule in India. In May , at the initiative of V. P. Menon, a meeting was held in Delhi between the Rajpramukhs of the princely unions and the States Department, at the end of which the Rajpramukhs signed new Instruments of Accession which gave the