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V. P. Menon
V. P. Menon was an Indian civil servant who, as secretary of the States Ministry under Vallabhbhai Patel, oversaw the integration of the princely states into India after 1947. He drafted the Instrument of Accession and negotiated with rulers to bring more than five hundred states into the new union. He had earlier been constitutional adviser to the last viceroys and helped shape the partition plan of 1947.
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