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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.
Oct 1, 2019 · India: The incredible story of V P Menon, Sardar Patel's Right-Hand Man & Unsung Hero of India’s Unification who was lost in the pages of history.
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.
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...
Mar 28, 2020 · V.P. Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India; Narayani Basu, Simon & Schuster, ₹799. The reviewer is Chancellor and Professor of History, Ashoka University.
On a sunny spring day in 1914, a young Malayali walked into the Government of India’s summer offices in Gorton Castle (in the then Simla). Nobody knew who Vappala Pangunni Menon was then. He was...
Feb 1, 2014 · Menon studied Unparalleled leadership (1893-1965) With education upto eighth standard, he rose to the rank of secretary and played a key role in transfer of power through merit and integrity. Eldest in a family of twelve, V P Menon was born on 30 September 1893 in village Kothakurussi in Malabar.
