Deeply researched and persuasively presented, John Zubrzycki’s ‘Dethroned: Patel, Menon, and the Integration of Princely India’ explores the foresightedness and efforts of Sardar Patel and VP Menon that led princely states to join India, relinquish their powers, and reorganise
There can be no doubt that Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw is the greatest Indian military leader since India's independence. This is for the simple reason that the armies under his command won one of the greatest military victories in the subcontinent.
If Patel was the one who laid out the initial framework for persuading the princes to join, it was his secretary, V.P. Menon, who did the actual groundwork of coaxing them. The final touch in the process was applied by the Viceroy Lord Mountbatten.
India News: Cyril Radcliffe's brief was to surgically separate India and Pakistan, but pressed for time the London lawyer went to work with a hacksaw. The wounds