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Ep 30: VP Menon The Unsung Architect of Modern Indian- Guftagu with Narayani Basu

India Colonised by Omer Haq

Sep 12, 202101:34:05History

With his initial plans for an independent India in tatters, the desperate viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, turned to his senior-most Indian civil servant, Vappala Pangunni Menon—or VP—giving him a single night to devise an alt...

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