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With his initial plans for an independent India in tatters, the desperate viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, turned to his seniormost Indian civil servant, Vappala Pangunni Menon—or VP—giving him a single night to devise an alternative, coherent and workable plan for independence. Menon met his stringent deadline, presenting the Menon Plan, which would change the map of the world forever. Menon was unarguably the architect of the modern Indian state. Yet startlingly little is known about this bureaucrat, patriot and visionary. In this definitive biography, Menon’s great-granddaughter, Narayani Basu, rectifies this travesty. She takes us through the highs and lows of his career, from his determ...
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Analyzes events in India from September 1939 to August 1947.
The author recounts in detail the events that occurred from September 1939 to August 1947, during the final stages of India s bid for freedom, and how power was actually transferred.
This is a reprint of a book which relates the extremely interesting and important story of how the political and administrative consolidation of India was brought about swiftly and peacefully.