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Rao Bahadur Vappala Pangunni Menon CSI, CIE (30 September 1893 - 31 December 1965) was an Indian civil servant who was the Constitutional Adviser and Political Reforms Commissioner to the last three Viceroys during British rule in India. He played a vital role in India's partition and political integration. Later in his life he became a member of the free-market–oriented Swatantra Party. ==Personal life== 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. By working assiduously, Menon rose through the ranks to become the highest serving Indian officer in British India. In 1946, he was appointed Political Reforms Commissioner to the British Viceroy. In Patrick French's book, India - a portrait, it is mentioned that VP Menon moved in with his Keralite friends after his wife left him and returned to south India. The couple had actually arranged his marriage and helped raise his two sons --- Pangunni Anantan Menon and Pangunni Shankaran Menon. When the husband died, Menon married his widow.〔India - a portrait by Patrick French - page 13〕 Menon was given the title of ''Rao Bahadur'', appointed a CIE in the 1941 Birthday Honours 〔(London Gazette, 6 June 1941 )〕 and a CSI in the 1946 Birthday Honours.〔(London Gazette, 13 June 1946 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「V. P. Menon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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