Integration of the Indian States (Reprint Edition)
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Author: | V P Menon |
ISBN 13: | 9788125054511 |
Binding: | Softcover |
Language: | English |
Year: | 2019 |
Subject: | Indian Politics and International Relations/Public Administration |
About the Book
Key Features:
Merging the 554 princely states with the Indian state was one of the most structurally monumental tasks that the Indian administration faced after Independence.
V.P. Menon worked closely with Sardar Patel to help integrate the princely states with India.
The book details the negotiations he carried out with each of these states.
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.
He also shows how various states were grouped together to form new administrative units.
This reissue of the volume has a new Introduction that contextualizes it for contemporary readers. It gives us a brief account of the author, the book and the background in which it was written. It tells us how the process of carving out states from the jigsaw puzzle that India was after Independence is something that continues.
Table of Contents:
List of Photographs, Cartoons and Maps
Preface
Introduction
Setting the Stage
Spokes in the Wheel
The Parting Gift
Prelude to Chaos
Stopping the Gap
Junagadh
The Orissa and Chhattisgarh States
Saurashtra
The Deccan and Gujarat States
Vindhya Pradesh
Madhya Bharat
Patiala and East Punjab States Union
Rajasthan
Travancore-Cochin
Mysore
A Miscellany of States
Hyderabad I
Hyderabad II
Hyderabad III
Jammu And Kashmir State
Baroda
Administrative Consolidation
Incorporation of the States Forces into the Indian Army
Financial Integration
Organic Unification
The Cost of Integration
Retrospect and Prospect