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This article assesses Indian activist VK Krishna Menon's early political thought, formed during his years in Britain prior to Indian independence..
V. K. Krishna Menon
Former Indian Defence Minister
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Krishna Menon's appointment as India's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom in This article examines the nature of Menon's relationship with the CPGB.
For the guru, see Atmananda Krishna Menon.
In this Indian name, the name Vengalil Krishnan is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Krishna Menon.
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon (3 May 1896 – 6 October 1974) was an Indian academic, independence activist, politician, lawyer, and statesman.[1][2] During his time, Menon contributed to the Indian independence movement and India's foreign relations.
He was among the major architects of Indian foreign policy, and acted as Jawaharlal Nehru's diplomat.
In 1928, Menon founded the India League in London to demand total independence from the British rule in the Indian subcontinent.
Towards the end of the 1940s, he presided Indo-British matters and caused the selection of the last British Viceroy of India, Louis Mountbatten.[3] He worked with Nehru, Mountbatten, Sardar Patel, and V.