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He played a crucial role in integrating the princely states with the Indian union. Menon was Secretary, States Ministry after Independence. It tells us how the process of carving out states from the jigsaw puzzle that India was after Independence is something that continues. 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.

The book details the negotiations he carried out with each of.

He also shows how various states were grouped together to form new administrative units Menon worked closely with Sardar Patel to help integrate the princely states with India.

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.

An equally important process has been consolidation. Revolution of the Indian States,' Round Table, Dec, 1948, pp.

The book details the negotiations he carried out with each of these states. What is the story behind the peacefulness of inauguration day.

Others were wary, fearful of losing their influence as. Menon worked closely with Sardar Patel to help integrate the princely states with India On April 28, 1947, the states of Gwalior, Bikaner, Patiala, and Baroda became the first to join India.

Merging the 554 princely states with the Indian state was one of the most structurally monumental tasks that the Indian administration faced after Independence.