Vp Menon

Author : Narayani Basu
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789386797698

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VP Menon by Narayani Basu Pdf

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 determination to give women the right to vote; to his strategy, at once ruthless and subtle, to get the princely states to accede to India; to his decision to join forces with the Swatantra Party; to his final relegation to relative obscurity. Equally, the book candidly explores the man behind the public figure— his unconventional personal life and his private conflicts, which made him channel his energy into public service. Drawing from documents—scattered, unread and unresearched until now—and with unprecedented access to Menon’s papers and his taped off-the-record and explosively frank interviews—this remarkable biography of VP Menon not only covers the life and times of a man unjustly consigned to the footnotes of history but also changes our perception of how India, as we know it, came into being.

Author : Vapal Pangunni Menon
Publisher : London, Green
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : PSU:000016856974

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The Transfer of Power in India by Vapal Pangunni Menon Pdf

Analyzes events in India from September 1939 to August 1947.

Author : Vapal P. Menon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8125015973

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Integration of the Indian States by Vapal P. Menon Pdf

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.

Author : Jairam Ramesh
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789353057404

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A Chequered Brilliance by Jairam Ramesh Pdf

This is a compelling biography of one of India's most controversial and consequential public figures. V.K. Krishna Menon continues to command our attention not just because he was Jawaharlal Nehru's confidant and soulmate but also for many of his own political and literary accomplishments. A relentless crusader for Indian independence in the UK in the 1930s and 1940s, he was a global star at the United Nations in the 1950s before he was forced to resign as defence minister in the wake of the India-China war of 1962. Meticulously researched and based entirely on new archival material, this book reveals Krishna Menon in all his capabilities and contradictions. It is also a rich history of the tumultuous times in which he lived and which he did so much to shape.

Author : Basu Narayani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Civil service
ISBN : 9392099207

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V.P. Menon by Basu Narayani Pdf

Author : E. Shashi Menon
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1978-06-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0123838541

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Pipeline Planning and Construction Field Manual by E. Shashi Menon Pdf

Pipeline Planning and Construction Field Manual aims to guide engineers and technicians in the processes of planning, designing, and construction of a pipeline system, as well as to provide the necessary tools for cost estimations, specifications, and field maintenance. The text includes understandable pipeline schematics, tables, and DIY checklists. This source is a collaborative work of a team of experts with over 180 years of combined experience throughout the United States and other countries in pipeline planning and construction. Comprised of 21 chapters, the book walks readers through the steps of pipeline construction and management. The comprehensive guide that this source provides enables engineers and technicians to manage routine auditing of technical work output relative to technical input and established expectations and standards, and to assess and estimate the work, including design integrity and product requirements, from its research to completion. Design, piping, civil, mechanical, petroleum, chemical, project production and project reservoir engineers, including novices and students, will find this book invaluable for their engineering practices. Back-of-the envelope calculations Checklists for maintenance operations Checklists for environmental compliance Simulations, modeling tools and equipment design Guide for pump and pumping station placement

Author : Narendra Singh Sarila
Publisher : Constable
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472128225

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The Shadow of the Great Game by Narendra Singh Sarila Pdf

The untold story of Indias Partition. The partition of India in 1947 was the only way to contain intractable religious differences as the subcontinent moved towards independence - or so the story goes. But this dramatic new history reveals previously overlooked links between British strategic interests - in the oil wells of the Middle East and maintaining access to its Indian Ocean territories - and partition. Narendra Singh Sarela reveals here how hte Great Gane against the Soviet Union cast a long shadow. The top-secret documentary evidence unearthed by the author sheds new light on several prominent figures, including Gandhi, Jinnah, Mountbatten, Churchill, Attlee, Wavell and Nerhu. This radical reassessment of one of the key events in British colonial history is important in itself, but its claim that many of the roots of Islamic terrorism sweeping the world today lie in the partition of India has much wider implications.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9386797682

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V. P. Menon by Anonim Pdf

Author : M K K Nayar
Publisher : D C Books
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789381699331

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Story of an Era Told Without Ill-will by M K K Nayar Pdf

The author, M K K Nayar's impressionable childhood, schooling and university years began in early 1920s - the most turbulent period of India's independence struggle. Aftergraduating in 1940 and spending two years in Travancore Civil Service, M K K Nayar joined the Ordnance Department of British India in Hyderabad. During this phase of his career, he risked his life more than once to bring nefarious going-ons in the princely state of Hyderabad to the attention of national leaders like Sardar Vallabhai Patel and defuse conspiracies that were jeopardizing India's national interests. In 1948, M K K Nayar joinedthe IAS and was involved prominently in India's national development - notably in building the Bhilai Steel Plant and fertilizer plants that also seeded several other industries in the Cochin Industrial Belt, and by propagating modern agriculture throughout South India. His friendship and intimacy with national leaders like Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, illustrious civil servants like V P Menon, industrialists like J R D Tata and innumerable opinion-leaders all over India gave him a ringside view of and insider information on some the most important and interesting episodes of Indian history until mid 1970s. !Destiny took him to Kerala in 1959 to head India's pioneer fertilizer company, The Fertilisers And Chemicals Travancore Ltd (FACT) which he developed into a multifaceted organization that grew over twenty-fold during the decade of his tenure in it. This period that ended in 1971 also found him raising Kathakali, one of the most stylized forms of mime dance-drama from a destitute existence on the fringes of Kerala's social milieu to the forefront of international recognition. Success in everything he did even outside of his vocation, from resolving political imbroglios to promoting art and literature, took him to the forefront of life in Kerala and the national capital. Jealousies it aroused resulted in court cases being instituted against him on frivolous charges and they took 12 years for him to be fully exonerated. In that time, India lost the services of one of its ablest go-getters during what should have been his peak years. !Between June 1986 until his premature passing away in September 1987, he penned a series of articles about his life nd times. It was serialized under the title of Aarodum Paribhavamillathe, Oru Kalaghattathinte Katha in the popular Malayalam weekly, Kala Kaumudi. It was later published as a book which became a big hit with Malayali readers and is printed and published even now. !M K K Nayar emphasizes that this was not an autobiography but an attempt to share without bitterness or ill-will some of his experiences and the joy, pain and terrible sadness they brought him. The renowned historian, author and academician, M G S Narayan says that M K K Nayar's 'memoirs did not get the due recognition it deserved"e; and acknowledges it as a "e;historical chronicle of pre and post independent India"e;. !The book has been translated into English by Gopakumar M Nair, who was an executive of FACT during a part of M K K Nayar's tenure there. Though Gopakumar is a popular amateur writer from his college days in IIT Madras, this translation named The Story of an Era, Told Without Ill-will is his first book.

Author : E. Shashi Menon
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781856178310

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Transmission Pipeline Calculations and Simulations Manual by E. Shashi Menon Pdf

Transmission Pipeline Calculations and Simulations Manual is a valuable time- and money-saving tool to quickly pinpoint the essential formulae, equations, and calculations needed for transmission pipeline routing and construction decisions. The manual’s three-part treatment starts with gas and petroleum data tables, followed by self-contained chapters concerning applications. Case studies at the end of each chapter provide practical experience for problem solving. Topics in this book include pressure and temperature profile of natural gas pipelines, how to size pipelines for specified flow rate and pressure limitations, and calculating the locations and HP of compressor stations and pumping stations on long distance pipelines. Case studies are based on the author’s personal field experiences Component to system level coverage Save time and money designing pipe routes well Design and verify piping systems before going to the field Increase design accuracy and systems effectiveness

Author : M. L. Ahuja
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : India
ISBN : 8178357291

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Great Administrators of India by M. L. Ahuja Pdf

In democracy, the responsibility for delivering good government rests on the performance of the executive, yet the bureaucracy plays a significant part in its success. Though the bureaucracy is required to function under political direction, but their knowledge and erudition certainly facilitate success in administrators of India, contains the profiles of ten successfully administrators who made a niche in different fields of their endeavours. They are not biographical essays in the conventional sense. The emphasis is on highlighting the contributions of personalities chosen. Of these: " V.P. Menon successfully brought the unification of 565 princely states in the Union of India. " K.M. Panikkar had been an eminent writer in Malayalam and English, a successful administrator, diplomat and educationist. " C.D. Deshmukh, the first Indian to be appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank of India by the British Raj, was an economist. " P.N. Haksar was one of the key policy makers who contributed greatly in the successful prime ministership of Indira Gandhi. " Nagendra Singh was a many-splendoured personality a prince, who was a jurist, civil servant, author, international diplomat, and defender of human rights. " I.G. Patel had been an economist, technocrat, civil servant, university administrator, and fourteenth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. " M.S. Swaminathan is the Father of Green Revolutions in Asia. " GVG Krishnamurthy, the former Election Commissioner of India, is a unique, enigmatic and versatile successful administrator. " Verghese Kurien is known as Milkman of India who has ushered in White Revolution. " E. Sreedharan is known for meticulous planning and execution of Delhi Metro system.

Author : Nivedita Menon,Aditya Nigam
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848137578

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Power and Contestation by Nivedita Menon,Aditya Nigam Pdf

1989 marks the unraveling of India's 'Nehruvian Consensus' around the idea of a modern, secular nation with a self-reliant economy. Caste and religion have come to play major roles in national politics. Global economic integration has led to conflict between the state and dispossessed people, but processes of globalization have also enabled new spaces for political assertion, such as around sexuality. Older challenges to the idea of India continue from movements in Kashmir and the North-East, while Maoist insurgency has deepened its bases. In a world of American Empire, India as a nuclear power has abandoned non-alignment, a shift that is contested by voices within. Power and Contestation shows that the turbulence and turmoil of this period are signs of India's continued vibrancy and democracy. The book is an ideal introduction to the complex internal histories and external power relations of a major global player for the new century.

Author : Jairam Ramesh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789386797278

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Intertwined Lives by Jairam Ramesh Pdf

This is the first definitive biography of arguably India’s most influential and powerful civil servant: P.N. Haksar, Indira Gandhi’s alter ego during her period of glory. Educated in the sciences and trained in law, Haksar was a diplomat by profession and a communist-turned-democratic socialist by conviction. He had known Indira Gandhi from their student days in London in the late-1930s, even though family links predated this friendship. They kept in touch, and in May 1967, she plucked him out of his diplomatic career and appointed him secretary in the prime minister’s Secretariat. This is when he emerged as her ideological beacon and moral compass, playing a pivotal role in her much-heralded achievements including the nationalization of banks, abolition of privy purses and princely privileges, the Indo-Soviet Treaty, the creation of Bangladesh, rapprochement with Sheikh Abdullah, the Simla and New Delhi Agreements with Pakistan, the emergence of the country as an agricultural, space and nuclear power and, later, the integration of Sikkim with India. This power and influence notwithstanding, Haksar chose to walk away from Indira Gandhi in January 1973. She, however, persuaded him to soon return, first as her special envoy and later as deputy chairman of the Planning Commission where he left his distinctive imprint. Exiting government once and for all in May 1977, he then continued to be associated with a number of academic institutions and became the patron for various national causes like protecting India’s secular traditions, propagating of a scientific temper, strengthening the public sector and deepening technological self-reliance. Successive prime ministers sought his counsel and in May 1987, he initiated the reconstruction of India’s relations with China. He remained an unrepentant Marxist and one of India’s most respected elder statesman and leading public figures till his death in November 1998. Drawing on Haksar’s extensive archives of official papers, memos, notes and letters, Jairam Ramesh presents a compelling chronicle of the life and times of a truly remarkable personality who decisively shaped the nation’s political and economic history in the 1960s and 1970s that continues to have relevance for today’s India as well. Written in Ramesh’s inimitable style, this work of formidable scholarship brings to life a man who is fast becoming a victim of collective amnesia.

Author : B., Krishna
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789353024819

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Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel by B., Krishna Pdf

As prime minister of Britain, Winston Churchill had ordered the preparation of an imperial strategy with the intention of Balkanizing India and tightening Britain's post-war hold over her. The strategy envisaged two Pakistans, one in the west and the other in the east, both large in size at India's expense; the west to include the non-Muslim east Punjab; the east, the whole of Bengal (despite Hindus comprising almost half the population), and the predominantly Hindu Assam. Within her borders, India was to be Balkanized with the creation of independent confederations of princely states. Attlee's policy statement of 20 February 1947 was to implement the same, and Mountbatten was given the mandate to transfer power and quit India by June 1948, a date that was advanced to August 1947. However, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel foiled Churchill's strategy. This book examines Patel's extraordinary contribution, from his unflinching support to Gandhi's satyagrahas and the Indian freedom struggle, to his farsighted and courageous approach in building a strong, integrated India.

Author : Rajendra Prasad
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143414155

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India Divided by Rajendra Prasad Pdf

The question of the partition of India into Muslim and Hindu zones assumed importance after the All-India Muslim League passed a resolution in its favour in March 1940 in Lahore.