Yet, startlingly little is known about this bureaucrat, patriot and visionary. These include Junagadh, Hyderabad and Kashmir - the big three with a history of dissent.Īs Sardar's right-hand man, VP Menon was unarguably the architect of the modern Indian state. Menon met his stringent deadline, presenting the Menon Plan, which would play midwife to India's birth as a free nation.Īs Reforms Commissioner to India's last three Viceroys - Linlithgow, Wavell and Mountbatten and then as Secretary, States Ministry, VP used his enormous intellect, diligence and powers of persuasion, to integrate 565 states into the Indian union. VP MENON THE UNSUNG ARCHITECT OF MODERN INDIAWith 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.
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