V P Menon was the Constitutional Adviser to the last three Viceroys during British rule in India. He was the only Indian in Mountbatten's inner team. Menon's plan for the partition of India into two Dominions was the one which was eventually adopted. It was Menon who realised the need to get the Princely States to accede to India before the date of independence and that Mountbatten was the ideal person to facilitate this. When the communal violence began following independence, Menon asked Mountbatten to take charge. ...

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On television reruns, the divided rulers of Paul Scott's Jewel in the Crown sip their tea in scented hill stations and swap idle gossip in the palaces of local princes. ... As assets and responsibilities mounted, the merchants, who had come out as supplicants bearing gifts to local princes for an inside track on trade, gradually became soldiers, and then became local rulers themselves. ... The India that these British traders came to do business in was a thoroughly bewildering place, a vast expanse of land filled with millions of peasants ruled by a small number of princes--mostly Musl...

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Assignment "The work of the white, middle-class campaigners was the main reason the slave trade was abolished." Do you agree? Explain your opinion in detail. The Slave Trade refers to the trading pattern in which people (mostly Europeans) forcibly removed black people from the West coast of Africa; they paid for these people with weapons and materials. They were then brought to Jamaica to be sold to plantation owners and individual households. ...

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