Reading V P Menon in the Fractured Times The Transfer of Power in India by V P Menon, with an Introduction by Partha Chatterjee, Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2025; pp viii+612, ₹1,415. Republishing V P Menon’s The Transfer of Power in India is a great opportunity to reread India’s independence from constitutional and bureaucratic perspectives. The book was originally published in 1957. Post independence, Menon served as secretary of the Government of India in the Ministry of State.
