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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.
The book explores the extensive role the two played in the dissolution of the princely order and their accession to India
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