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K. P. S. Menon
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Indian diplomat
Location(s)
OX1 3EX
United Kingdom
About
K. P. S. Menon joined the University of Oxford after the end of the First World War. He was President of the Oxford Majlis for a term in 1920.
Menon served in the Madras Indian Civil Service until 1924 when he was transferred to the Foreign and Political Department as Under-Secretary to the Resident of Hyderabad. In 1939 he was appointed as Chief Minister of Bharatpur, then Ambassador to China after independence, Foreign Secretary from 1948 to 1952 and then Ambassador to Moscow.
Many Worlds: An Autobiography (London: Oxford University Press, 1965)
L/P&J/12/115 (secret files on Menon and Kirpalani), Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras
Papers, Nehru Memorial Library, New Delhi
Image credit
© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
