![]() By working assiduously, Menon rose through the ranks to become the highest serving Indian officer in British India. The son of a school headmaster in Kerala, Menon worked as a railway stoker, coal miner and Bangalore tobacco company clerk before gaining a junior post in the Indian Civil Service. ![]() ![]() Menon, was an Indian civil servant who played a vital role during the partition of India and the integration of independent India, from the period 1945-1950. In Patrick French's book, India - a portrait, it is mentioned that VP Menon moved in with his Keralite friends a Rao Bahadur Vappala Pangunni Menon CSI, CIE (30 September 1893 - 31 December 1965), also known as V. In 1946, he was appointed Political Reforms Commissioner to the British Viceroy. ![]() Rao Bahadur Vappala Pangunni Menon CSI, CIE (30 September 1893 - 31 December 1965), also known as V. ![]()
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