... V.P. Menon? Vappala Pangunni Menon, known as V. P. Menon, was an Indian Civil Servant who played a vital role during the partition of India and the integration of the princely states into Independent India, during the period 1945-1950. V. P. Menon who hailed from the erstwhile princely state of Cochin, now in Kerala, was the son of a school headmaster in Kerala. Menon began... The Role of South India in the Freedom Movement V. P. Menon In this chapter we present the contribution of V. P. Menon to the Freedom Movement. To describe V. P. Menon as a freedom fighter would be somewhat far-fetched, for he was a civil servant serving the British government in India. Yet as a civil servant he played a key role firstly in the i... Indian Civil Service. Working assiduously hard, Menon rose through the ranks to become the highest serving Indian officer in British India. In 1946, he was appointed Political Reforms Commissioner to the British viceroy. Menon was the political adviser of the last viceroy of India, Lord Louis Mountbatten. It was in mid-August 1942 that Menon was made adviser to the viceroy, Lord Linlithgow ...
... colonel, he was chosen to accompany V P Menon on his historic mission to Kashmir. This is his version of that journey and its aftermath, as recorded in an interview with Prem Shankar Jha. A t about 2.30 in the afternoon, General Sir Roy Bucher walked into my room and said, 'Eh, you, go and pick up your toothbrush. You are going to Srinagar with V P Menon. The flight will take off at about 4... 4 o'clock'. I said, 'why me, sir?' 'Because we are worried about the military situation. V P Menon is going there to get the accession from the Maharaja and Mahajan.' I flew in with V P Menon in a Dakota. Wing Commander Dewan, who was then squadron leader Dewan, was also there. But his job did not have anything to with assessing the military situation. He was sent by the Air Force... for soldiers to be ready. But we couldn't fly them in until the state of Kashmir had acceded to India. From the political side, Sardar Patel and V P Menon had been dealing with Mahajan and the Maharaja, and the idea was that V.P Menon would get the Accession, I would bring back the military appreciation and report to the government. The troops were already at the airport, ready to be flown ...
... Paliath Achan Govindan Menon Just as in Travancore, affairs in the neighbouring Kingdom of Cochin were also in a state of great confusion and dislike against the Resident. The Rajah of Cochin had retired to a small village near Alwaye while the kingdom was actually run by his powerful minister and relative, the Paliath Achan Govindan Menon. Paliath Achan wanted the assassination... ion of a powerful and trusted aide of the Rajah, a certain Kunju Krishna Menon (whose daughter later married Ayilyam Thirunal, Maharajah of Travancore), who was protected by the Resident. This increased the hostility between the Paliath Achan and the Resident who started interfering in the internal affairs of Cochin as well, incurring serious displeasure from the Paliath Achan. Velu Thampi's... Thampi's Insurrection Velu Thampi Dalawa and the Paliath Achan, Govindan Menon, met and decided on the extirpation of the British Resident and end of British supremacy in their respective states. Velu Thampi organised recruits, strengthened forts and stored up ammunition while similar preparations were made by the Paliath Achan in Cochin. Velu Thampi applied to the Zamorin of Calicut and to ...
... Several small regions sought sovereignty. It was decided that Atlee's deadline of June 1948 be advanced to August 15, 1947. V.P. Menon proposed the TWO-DOMINION of INDIA and PAKISTAN plan that was accepted by Mountbatten and by Nehru on May 11, 1947. On June 2, 1947, the Menon-Mountbatten plan was accepted by Nehru, Kripalani and Patel on behalf of the Congress, by Baldeo Singh on behalf of the Sikhs ...
... Shraddhanjali that manufactures handmade stationery and pressed flower art objects. Her husband, Claude Arpi, is in charge of the Tibetan Pavilion. Their youngest daughter, Shubha, is married to Narayanan Menon. They both hold Ph D. degrees in physics and teach at Amhurst University in Massachusetts. They have two children. On my last day in Pondicherry, January 4, 2003, before returning to the United States ...
... × Mother is probably alluding to difficulties in obtaining the dismissal of the Defense Minister, Krishna Menon. It might be recalled that, under Nehru, India's foreign policy was quite pro-Chinese (the slogan of the day was Hindi-Chini-bhaï-bhaï : Indians and Chinese are brothers), and when China began to sweep ...
... Government and ask Sheikh Abdullah to carry the responsibilities in this emergency with my Prime Minister. If my State has to be saved, immediate assistance must be available at Srinagar. Mr. Menon is fully aware of the situation and he will explain to you, if further explanation is needed. In haste and with kind regards, Yours sincerely, Hari Singh Below ...
... representatives. It is felt by many political analysts that this act of resignation was a wrong step and helped Jinnah in the creation of Pakistan. Page 94 As V. P. Menon pointed out: Had it (the Congress party) not resigned from its position of vantage in the Provinces the course of Indian history might have been very different..... By resigning the Congress ...
... Movement, from 1945 to 1947, the relevance of Gandhi was reduced considerably. It was during this period that two leaders played a sterling role in the movement; they were Sardar Vallabhai Patel and V. P. Menon. Finally, we shall point out the silent role that Sri Aurobindo played during this period. It is true that he had retired from active politics; but he did intervene through letters and public ...
... to be taken like this ( gesture of encircling India ). It's nasty. Things seem to be taking a nasty turn. But what I find perhaps even more incredible than the leaders' incompetence—Nehru, Menon, and so forth—is that for twenty years there hasn't been a single Indian to see things clearly and speak out—there's been no one in India, no one. For twenty years there have been two idols, Nehru and ...
... committee comprising Prof. Arun Nigavenkar (UGC), Prof. Amrik Singh (Eminent Educationist), Prof. Ramamurthy (Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Learning), Prof. VS. Prasad (IGNOU), Prof. Shyam. B. Menon (DU), Prof. Karuna Chanana (JNU), Prof. Talat Aziz (JMI), Prof. Jaya Indiresan (formerly with NIEPA), Prof. B.P. Khandelwal and Prof. Marmar Mukhopadhyay (both in NIEPA) deliberated on the theme. The ...
... ss, a return upon oneself, an inlook of full awareness and a free and alert activity of the critical faculties. An unconscious artist in the sense of the "primitives" is almost an impossible pheno-menon in the modern world. All are scientists: an artist cannot but be consciously critical, deliberate, purposive in what he creates and how he creates. Evidently, this has cost something of the old-world ...
... The sum of 5000/= will go to meet a part of our food and rent expenses for the members. Kamoo has collected about 60,000/= for Matrimandir. Her proposal to go to England next month for Leela Menon's performances for the benefit of Matrimandir was approved. John Kelly and a worker are reported to be drinking very much now-a-days. Diane, to whom I conveyed yesterday Mother's reply about ...
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