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	==Early life and career==		==Early life and career==
	The son of a school headmaster Chunangad Shankara Menon, in [[Kerala]], Menon worked as a railway stoker, coal miner and Bangalore tobacco company clerk. Menon joined Provincial Civil Service (PCS)<ref name="Prince Endgame">{{cite book\|last=Copland\|first=Ian\|title=The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947\|year=2002\|publisher=Cambridge University Press\|isbn=9780521894364}}</ref> in 1914. He served as Assistant Secretary to Government of India in the Reforms Office from 1933 to 1934.<ref name="Prince Endgame"/> He later served as Under Secretary from 1934 to 1935, Deputy Secretary from 1935 to 1940, [[Joint secretary to the Government of India]] from 1941 to 1942.<ref name="Prince Endgame"/> By working assiduously, Menon rose through the ranks to become the highest serving Indian officer in [[British India]].		The son of a school headmaster Chunangad Shankara Menon, in [[Kerala]], Menon worked as a railway stoker, coal miner and Bangalore tobacco company clerk. Menon joined the Provincial Civil Service (PCS)<ref name="Prince Endgame">{{cite book\|last=Copland\|first=Ian\|title=The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947\|year=2002\|publisher=Cambridge University Press\|isbn=9780521894364}}</ref> in 1914. He served as Assistant Secretary to the Government of India in the Reforms Office from 1933 to 1934.<ref name="Prince Endgame"/> He later served as Under Secretary from 1934 to 1935, Deputy Secretary from 1935 to 1940, [[Joint secretary to the Government of India]] from 1941 to 1942.<ref name="Prince Endgame"/> By working assiduously, Menon rose through the ranks to become the highest serving Indian officer in [[British India]].

	[[File:Mountbatten with Menon.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|right\|Lord Mountbatten, N. Gopalaswami Aiyangar and VP Menon discussing the Hyderabad question at a party on 30 May 1948.]]		[[File:Mountbatten with Menon.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|right\|Lord Mountbatten, N. Gopalaswami Aiyangar and VP Menon discussing the Hyderabad question at a party on 30 May 1948.]]
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	In [[Patrick French]]'s ''India: A Portrait'', a biographical book on the Indian Subcontinent, it is mentioned that VP Menon moved in with his Keralite friends after his wife left him and returned to south India. The two friends, who were a couple, had arranged his marriage and helped raise his two sons – Pangunni Anantan Menon and Pangunni Shankaran Menon. When the husband died, Menon married his widow.<ref>India - a portrait by Patrick French - page 13</ref>		In [[Patrick French]]'s ''India: A Portrait'', a biographical book on the Indian Subcontinent, it is mentioned that VP Menon moved in with his Keralite friends after his wife left him and returned to south India. The two friends, who were a couple, had arranged his marriage and helped raise his two sons – Pangunni Anantan Menon and Pangunni Shankaran Menon. When the husband died, Menon married his widow.<ref>India - a portrait by Patrick French - page 13</ref>

	Menon was given the title of ''[[Rao Bahadur]]'', appointed a [[Order of the Indian Empire\|CIE]] in the 1941 Birthday Honours <ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35184/supplements/3285 London Gazette, 6 June 1941]</ref> and a [[Order of the Star of India\|CSI]] in the 1946 Birthday Honours.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/37598/supplements/2760 London Gazette, 13 June 1946]</ref>		Menon was given the title of ''[[Rao Bahadur]]'', appointed a [[Order of the Indian Empire\|CIE]] in the 1941 Birthday Honours <ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35184/supplements/3285 London Gazette, 6 June 1941]</ref> and a [[Order of the Star of India\|CSI]] in the 1946 Birthday Honours.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/37598/supplements/2760 London Gazette, 13 June 1946]</ref> He was offered a knighthood as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) in a final imperial honours list in 1948,<ref name="decades">{{cite book \|last=Pothen \|first=Nayantara \|author-link= \|date=2012 \|title=Glittering Decades: New Delhi in Love and War \|url= \|location= \|publisher=Viking\|isbn=9788184756012}}</ref> but refused. In a formal statement to the outgoing British authorities, Menon declined the knighthood, stating that with Indian independence, he had entered the service of the new Indian government.<ref name="decades"/> According to his grandson, however, Menon later privately told his daughter-in-law he could not accept a knighthood for having caused the partition of his country.<ref>{{cite news \|last=Ramaswamy \|first=Chitra \|date=7 August 2022 \|title=India 1947: Partition in Colour review – a heartbreaking, rage-inspiring history of Britain’s colonial legacy \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/aug/07/india-1947-partition-in-colour-review-channel-4-history-britain-colonial-legacy \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|location= \|access-date=14 August 2022}}</ref>

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	VP Menon was present at the meeting between Lord Mountbatten and [[Hanwant Singh]], Maharaja of [[Jodhpur]]. It was at this meeting that Hanwant Singh signed the instrument of accession to India. After he had signed and the Viceroy Mountbatten left, only Menon was in the room with him. The Maharaja took out a .22 calibre pistol and pointed it at Menon and said 'I refuse to take your dictation'. Menon told him that he would be making a very serious mistake by threatening him and would not be able to get the accession abrogated in any case.<ref>India - a portrait by Patrick French (page 10)</ref>		VP Menon was present at the meeting between Lord Mountbatten and [[Hanwant Singh]], Maharaja of [[Jodhpur]]. It was at this meeting that Hanwant Singh signed the instrument of accession to India. After he had signed and the Viceroy Mountbatten left, only Menon was in the room with him. The Maharaja took out a .22 calibre pistol and pointed it at Menon and said 'I refuse to take your dictation'. Menon told him that he would be making a very serious mistake by threatening him and would not be able to get the accession abrogated in any case.<ref>India - a portrait by Patrick French (page 10)</ref>

	On 25~~.10.1947~~ V.P Menon arrived at Srinagar to assess the situation of Kashmir and advised [[Maharaja Hari Singh]] to proceed to Jammu as invaders were very close to Srinagar. Maharaja Hari Singh left from Srinagar to Jammu on the same night. V.P Menon along with [[Mehr Chand Mahajan]] (Prime Minister J&K) left for New Delhi by air on the morning of ~~26.10.1947~~. On arriving at New Delhi, Lord Mountbatten assured militarily intervention in J&K only after instrument of accession were signed. V.P Menon then left from New Delhi to Jammu by air in afternoon on ~~26.10.1947 and got~~ the legal documents ~~signed and came back on the same day by~~ evening by air to New Delhi. Next day, on ~~27.10.1947~~ [[Lord Mountbatten]] accepted the accession of Princely State of Jammu & Kashmir to India and Indian Army landed on Srinagar airport on the same day.<ref>Pakistan Invasion http://www.earlytimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=248744 Early Times date=26 October 2018</ref>		On 25 October, V.P Menon arrived at Srinagar to assess the situation of Kashmir and advised [[Maharaja Hari Singh]] to proceed to Jammu as invaders were very close to Srinagar. Maharaja Hari Singh left from Srinagar to Jammu on the same night. V.P Menon along with [[Mehr Chand Mahajan]] (Prime Minister J&K) left for New Delhi by air on the morning of 26th October. On arriving at New Delhi, Lord Mountbatten assured militarily intervention in J&K only after instrument of accession were signed. V.P Menon then left from New Delhi to Jammu by air on the afternoon of 26th October, secured signature on the legal documents, returning that evening by air to New Delhi. Next day, on 27th October [[Lord Mountbatten]] accepted the accession of the Princely State of Jammu & Kashmir to India and Indian Army landed on Srinagar airport on the same day.<ref>Pakistan Invasion http://www.earlytimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=248744 Early Times date=26 October 2018</ref>

	==Integration of India==		==Integration of India==
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	==Later years==		==Later years==

	After his stint as Secretary, he was [[Governor of Odisha]] (''Orissa then'') for a short period in 1951. He authored a book on the [[political integration of India]], ''The Story of the Integration of Indian States'' and on the [[partition of India]], ''Transfer of Power''. He later joined the [[Swatantra Party]], but never contested in the elections.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Raju\|first=S. V.\|title=Masani and Swatantra Party\|url=https://ccs.in/masani-and-swatantra-party}}</ref> Menon died on 31 December 1965 at the age of 72.		After his stint as Secretary, he was [[Governor of Odisha]] (''Orissa then'') for a short period in 1951.<ref>{{Cite book \|url=https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/2769906 \|title=Grant of three months' leave of absence to His Excellency Mr. M. Asaf Ali, Governor of Orissa, and appointment of Sri V.P. Menon as Acting Governor \|publisher=Government House \|year=1951 \|location=New Delhi \|pages=36 \|chapter=Communique \|access-date=13 September 2022 \|url-access=registration \|via=[[National Archives of India]]}}</ref> He authored a book on the [[political integration of India]], ''The Story of the Integration of Indian States'' and on the [[partition of India]], ''Transfer of Power''. He later joined the [[Swatantra Party]], but never contested the elections.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Raju\|first=S. V.\|title=Masani and Swatantra Party\|url=https://ccs.in/masani-and-swatantra-party}}</ref> Menon died on 31 December 1965 at the age of 72.

	==In popular culture==		==In popular culture==

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	The son of a school headmaster Chunangad Shankara Menon, in [[Kerala]], Menon worked as a railway stoker, coal miner and Bangalore tobacco company clerk. Menon joined Provincial Civil Service (PCS)<ref name="Prince Endgame">{{cite book\|last=Copland\|first=Ian\|title=The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947\|year=2002\|publisher=Cambridge University Press\|isbn=9780521894364}}</ref> in 1914. He served as Assistant Secretary to Government of India in the Reforms Office from 1933 to 1934.<ref name="Prince Endgame"/> He later served as Under Secretary from 1934 to 1935, Deputy Secretary from 1935 to 1940, [[Joint secretary to the Government of India]] from 1941 to 1942.<ref name="Prince Endgame"/> By working assiduously, Menon rose through the ranks to become the highest serving Indian officer in [[British India]].		The son of a school headmaster Chunangad Shankara Menon, in [[Kerala]], Menon worked as a railway stoker, coal miner and Bangalore tobacco company clerk. Menon joined Provincial Civil Service (PCS)<ref name="Prince Endgame">{{cite book\|last=Copland\|first=Ian\|title=The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947\|year=2002\|publisher=Cambridge University Press\|isbn=9780521894364}}</ref> in 1914. He served as Assistant Secretary to Government of India in the Reforms Office from 1933 to 1934.<ref name="Prince Endgame"/> He later served as Under Secretary from 1934 to 1935, Deputy Secretary from 1935 to 1940, [[Joint secretary to the Government of India]] from 1941 to 1942.<ref name="Prince Endgame"/> By working assiduously, Menon rose through the ranks to become the highest serving Indian officer in [[British India]].

	[[File:Mountbatten with Menon.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|right\|Lord Mountbatten, N. Gopalaswami Aiyangar and VP Menon discussing ~~theHyderabad~~ question at a party on 30 May 1948.]]		[[File:Mountbatten with Menon.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|right\|Lord Mountbatten, N. Gopalaswami Aiyangar and VP Menon discussing the Hyderabad question at a party on 30 May 1948.]]
	Menon served as Joint Secretary to the [[Simla Conference]] in June 1945. In 1946, he was appointed Political Reforms Commissioner to the British Viceroy.		Menon served as Joint Secretary to the [[Simla Conference]] in June 1945. In 1946, he was appointed Political Reforms Commissioner to the British Viceroy.

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| office = Acting [[Governor of Odisha]]
| constituency =
| term_start = 6 May 1951
| term_end = 17 July 1951
| predecessor = [[Asaf Ali]]
| successor = [[Asaf Ali]]
| office2 = [[Secretary to the Government of India]] in the [[States Department|Ministry of the States]]
| term_start2 = 1947
| term_end2 = 1951
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| office3 = Constitutional Adviser and Political Reforms Commissioner to [[Viceroy of India]]
| term_start3 = 1942
| term_end3 = 1947
| predecessor3 = [[Harry Hodson]]
| successor3 = Abolished
|birth_name = Vappala Pangunni Menon
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|birth_place = [[Ottapalam]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[British India|British Raj]] (Present day [[Kerala]])
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1965|12|31|1893|09|30|df=yes}}, [[Cooke Town]], [[Bangalore]]
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[[Rao Bahadur]] '''Vappala Pangunni Menon''', [[Order of the Star of India|CSI]], [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] (30 September 1893 – 31 December 1965) was an Indian [[civil servant]] who served as [[Secretary to the Government of India]] in the [[States Department|Ministry of the States]], under [[Sardar Patel]].

By appointment from [[Governor-General of India|Viceroy and Governor-General of India]] [[Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell|Wavell]], he also served as Secretary to the Governor-General (Public) and later as Secretary to the Cabinet. He also was the Constitutional Adviser<ref name="VP Menon">{{cite news |url=http://www.forgotten-raj.org/doc/vp6.pdf |title=V P Menon – The Forgotten Architect of Modern India |work=Forgotten Raj |date=13 April 2011 |access-date=13 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726061929/http://www.forgotten-raj.org/doc/vp6.pdf |archive-date=26 July 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="VP Menon Architect">{{cite news |url=http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/india/vpmenon.htm |title=V P Menon – The Forgotten Architect of Modern India |access-date=18 September 2014}}</ref> and Political Reforms Commissioner to the last three successive Viceroys ([[Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow|Linlithgow]], [[Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell|Wavell]] and [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|Mountbatten]]) during British rule in India. In May 1948, at the initiative of V. P. Menon, a meeting was held in Delhi between the Rajpramukhs of the princely unions and the States Department, at the end of which the Rajpramukhs signed new Instruments of Accession which gave the Government of India the power to pass laws in respect of all matters that fell within the seventh schedule of the [[Government of India Act 1935]].

He played a vital role in India's [[partition of India|partition]] and [[Political integration of India|political integration]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/research/how-vallabhbhai-patel-v-p-menon-and-mountbatten-unified-india-4915468/|title=How Vallabhbhai Patel, V P Menon and Mountbatten unified India|date=31 October 2017}}</ref> Later in his life, he became a member of the free-market–oriented [[Swatantra Party]].

==Early life and career==
The son of a school headmaster Chunangad Shankara Menon, in [[Kerala]], Menon worked as a railway stoker, coal miner and Bangalore tobacco company clerk. Menon joined Provincial Civil Service (PCS)<ref name="Prince Endgame">{{cite book|last=Copland|first=Ian|title=The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947|year=2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521894364}}</ref> in 1914. He served as Assistant Secretary to Government of India in the Reforms Office from 1933 to 1934.<ref name="Prince Endgame"/> He later served as Under Secretary from 1934 to 1935, Deputy Secretary from 1935 to 1940, [[Joint secretary to the Government of India]] from 1941 to 1942.<ref name="Prince Endgame"/> By working assiduously, Menon rose through the ranks to become the highest serving Indian officer in [[British India]].

[[File:Mountbatten with Menon.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Lord Mountbatten, N. Gopalaswami Aiyangar and VP Menon discussing theHyderabad question at a party on 30 May 1948.]]
Menon served as Joint Secretary to the [[Simla Conference]] in June 1945. In 1946, he was appointed Political Reforms Commissioner to the British Viceroy.

In [[Patrick French]]'s ''India: A Portrait'', a biographical book on the Indian Subcontinent, it is mentioned that VP Menon moved in with his Keralite friends after his wife left him and returned to south India. The two friends, who were a couple, had arranged his marriage and helped raise his two sons – Pangunni Anantan Menon and Pangunni Shankaran Menon. When the husband died, Menon married his widow.<ref>India - a portrait by Patrick French - page 13</ref>

Menon was given the title of ''[[Rao Bahadur]]'', appointed a [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] in the 1941 Birthday Honours <ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35184/supplements/3285 London Gazette, 6 June 1941]</ref> and a [[Order of the Star of India|CSI]] in the 1946 Birthday Honours.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/37598/supplements/2760 London Gazette, 13 June 1946]</ref>

==Partition of India==
{{Further|Indian independence movement}}

Menon was the political advisor of the last [[Viceroy of India]], Lord [[Louis Mountbatten]]. When the interim Government had collapsed due to the rivalry between the [[Indian National Congress]] and the [[All-India Muslim League|Muslim League]], Menon had proposed to Mountbatten, [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] and [[Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel]], the Indian leaders, the Muslim League's plan to partition India into two independent nations - India and [[Pakistan]].

Menon's resourcefulness during this period caught the eye of Sardar Patel, who would become the [[Deputy Prime Minister of India]] in 1947.

VP Menon was present at the meeting between Lord Mountbatten and [[Hanwant Singh]], Maharaja of [[Jodhpur]]. It was at this meeting that Hanwant Singh signed the instrument of accession to India. After he had signed and the Viceroy Mountbatten left, only Menon was in the room with him. The Maharaja took out a .22 calibre pistol and pointed it at Menon and said 'I refuse to take your dictation'. Menon told him that he would be making a very serious mistake by threatening him and would not be able to get the accession abrogated in any case.<ref>India - a portrait by Patrick French (page 10)</ref>

On 25.10.1947 V.P Menon arrived at Srinagar to assess the situation of Kashmir and advised [[Maharaja Hari Singh]] to proceed to Jammu as invaders were very close to Srinagar. Maharaja Hari Singh left from Srinagar to Jammu on the same night. V.P Menon along with [[Mehr Chand Mahajan]] (Prime Minister J&K) left for New Delhi by air on the morning of 26.10.1947. On arriving at New Delhi, Lord Mountbatten assured militarily intervention in J&K only after instrument of accession were signed. V.P Menon then left from New Delhi to Jammu by air in afternoon on 26.10.1947 and got the legal documents signed and came back on the same day by evening by air to New Delhi. Next day, on 27.10.1947 [[Lord Mountbatten]] accepted the accession of Princely State of Jammu & Kashmir to India and Indian Army landed on Srinagar airport on the same day.<ref>Pakistan Invasion http://www.earlytimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=248744 Early Times date=26 October 2018</ref>

==Integration of India==
[[File:VP Menon with the rules of Class A states.jpg|thumb|200px|right|VP Menon conferring with the rulers of A class States in Orissa.]]
After the independence of India, Menon became the secretary of the Ministry of the States, headed by [[Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel]], with whom he had developed a bond of trust. Patel respected Menon's political genius and work ethic, while Menon obtained the respect for his work that a civil servant needs from his political superior.

Menon worked closely with Patel over the [[political integration of India]], in which, over 565 [[princely state]]s were merged into the [[Dominion of India|union of India]], managing the diplomacy between the States Ministry and the various Indian princes, acting as Patel's envoy and striking deals with reluctant princes and rulers. Patel respected Menon's ingenuity in diplomacy, and often did not question if Menon exceeded any instructions.

[[File:VP Menon signing Patial and East Punjab Union convenant.jpg|thumb|200px|right|VP Menon signing the Patiala and East Punjab States Union covenant.]]
Menon also worked with Patel over the military action against the hostile states of [[Junagadh]] and [[Hyderabad state|Hyderabad]], as well as advising Nehru and Patel on relations with [[Pakistan]] and the [[History of the Kashmir conflict|Kashmir conflict]]. The Cabinet had dispatched Menon to obtain the accession of [[Kashmir]] into India in 1947.

==Later years==

After his stint as Secretary, he was [[Governor of Odisha]] (''Orissa then'') for a short period in 1951. He authored a book on the [[political integration of India]], ''The Story of the Integration of Indian States'' and on the [[partition of India]], ''Transfer of Power''. He later joined the [[Swatantra Party]], but never contested in the elections.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Raju|first=S. V.|title=Masani and Swatantra Party|url=https://ccs.in/masani-and-swatantra-party}}</ref> Menon died on 31 December 1965 at the age of 72.

==In popular culture==
Indian actor [[Ashish Vidyarthi]] portrayed Menon in the 1993 film ''[[Sardar (1993 film)|Sardar]]'', based on the life of Indian statesman Vallabhbhai Patel.<ref>{{Citation|title=Sardar (1993) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240879/fullcredits|access-date=2021-01-06}}</ref>

In 2020, his great granddaughter Narayani Basu wrote a biography on him named, ''[[V. P. Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Mukherjee|first=Rudrangshu|date=2020-03-28|title='V.P. Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India' review: Adviser to the powerful|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/vp-menon-the-unsung-architect-of-modern-india-review-adviser-to-the-powerful/article31171547.ece|access-date=2021-01-06|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* Menon, V.P (1956), ''[https://archive.org/stream/99999990823953TheStoryOfTheIntegrationOfTheIndianStates/99999990823953%20-%20The%20Story%20Of%20The%20Integration%20Of%20The%20Indian%20States#mode/2up The Story of the Integration of the Indian States]'', Orient Longman Ltd, Madras
* Menon, V.P (1957), ''[[iarchive:4990010060490TheTransferOfPowerInIndia/page/n11/mode/2up|The Transfer of Power in India]]'', Orient Longman Ltd, Madras

== Further reading ==
* {{Cite book|last=Gandhi|first=Rajmohan|title=Patel: A Life|publisher=[[Navajivan]]|year=1990|location=Ahmedabad|author-link=Rajmohan Gandhi}}
* {{Cite book|last=Basu|first=Narayani|title=[[V. P. Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India]]|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster|Simon & Schuster India]]|year=2020|isbn=9789386797681}}

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