He played a crucial role in integrating the princely states with the Indian union. Menon was Secretary, States Ministry after Independence. in fact, the merit of some of the books uploaded on the subject. the politics, the bluff, the persuasion, the tact and even the coercion employed are described. It tells us how the process of carving out states from the jigsaw puzzle that India was after Independence is something that continues. V P Menon, Secretary States Department - the senior civil servant charged with this mission - describes how he went about it. It gives us a brief account of the author, the book and the background in which it was written. This reissue of the volume has a new Introduction that contextualises it for contemporary readers.He also shows how various states were grouped together to form new administrative units.He has taken up the case of each state and shown how they were persuaded to sign the Instrument of Accession which made them a part of the Indian union.The book details the negotiations he carried out with each of these states.
Menon worked closely with Sardar Patel to help integrate the princely states with India Menon describing about various princely states and the methods used by Sardar Patel for integrating all the princely. The book details the negotiations he carried out with each of. Merging the 554 princely states with the Indian state was one of the most structurally monumental tasks that the Indian administration faced after Independence. Menon worked closely with Sardar Patel to help integrate the princely states with India.
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