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Vappala Pangunni Menon CSI CIE (30 September 1893 – 31 December 1965) was an Indian civil servant who served as Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of the States, under Sardar Patel.
Aug 16, 2022 · VP Menon's 37-year-long career as a bureaucrat spanned India's struggle for freedom. India was on the cusp of freedom from British rule in 1947 and Vappala Pangunni Menon was completely worn...
With his initial plans for an independent India in tatters, a desperate Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, turned to his senior-most Indian civil servant, Vappala Pangunni Menon— or ‘VP’—giving him a single night to devise an alternative, coherent and workable plan for independence.
- Narayani Basu
V P Menon was the Constitutional Adviser to the last three Viceroys during British rule in India. He was the only Indian in Mountbatten's inner team. Menon's plan for the partition of India into two Dominions was the one which was eventually adopted.
May 25, 2021 · V P Menon played a pivotal role in shaping the Indian Union along with Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. In this excerpt from 'V P Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India', historian Narayani Basu focuses on the great affinity these two nation builders had for each other.
Feb 29, 2020 · He not only knew Menon as his boss during his tenure in India, but also subsequently recorded an extensive series of interviews with Menon about the period in which he played a...
Aug 16, 2022 · VP Menon's 37-year-long career as a bureaucrat spanned India's struggle for freedom. India was on the cusp of freedom from British rule in 1947 and Vappala Pangunni Menon was completely worn...
The book is a biography of V. P. Menon, an Indian civil servant who assisted Sardar Patel in the political integration of India, and was one of the founders of Swatantra Party which advocated free market policies.
Today, VP Menon is remembered for being Sardar Vallabhbahi Patel’s right-hand man, for assisting in the integration of the princely states into the Indian Union. But, between 1914-1951,...
Oct 31, 2017 · If Patel was the one who laid out the initial framework for persuading the princes to join, it was his secretary, V.P. Menon, who did the actual groundwork of coaxing them. The final touch in the process was applied by the Viceroy Lord Mountbatten.
