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    Vengalil Krishna Kurup Krishna Menon (3 May 1896 – 6 October 1974) was an Indian academic, independence activist, politician, lawyer, and statesman. During...
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    celebrated as the Republic Day of India, and was initially drafted by V. K. Krishna Menon. Menon explicitly did not include the words "socialist" or "secular"...
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    Foreign minister of India V. K. Krishna Menon, Kalakshetra boss K. Sankara Menon, leading trial lawyer K. Kunhirama Menon (who would represent him in...
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  • - bypoll S. G. Barve (INC) : 171,902 votes (Died in March 1967) V. K. Krishna Menon (IND) : 158,733 M S Agaskar (Jana Sangh) : 78,796 (Came in third...
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  • defence minister V. K. Krishna Menon and Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Brij Mohan Kaul of his opinion on the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen. K. S. Thimayya...
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    Francisco Franco's forces in the Spanish Civil War. Nehru and his aide V. K. Krishna Menon visited Spain and declared support for the Republicans. When Benito...
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    The India League was an England-based organisation established by Krishna Menon in 1928. It campaigned for the full independence and self-governance of...
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    'Provisional Parliament of India'. It was conceived and created by V. K. Krishna Menon, who first outlined its necessity in 1933 and enshrined it as a Congress...
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  • Krishna Menon Memorial Government Women's College is an educational institution in Kannur, India. Under Graduate programmes: B.A. Economics with National...
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  • The jeep scandal case allegedly took place in 1948 when V.K. Krishna Menon, the Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, ignored protocols and signed...
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    Zakir Husain, Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, and V. K. Krishna Menon, who were honoured in 1954. The 1954 statutes did not allow posthumous...
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    his wife's longstanding friendship and collaboration with V. K. Krishna Menon, led to Menon putting forth Mountbatten's name alone as a viceregal candidate...
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    Gopal Krishna Gokhale CIE (listen [ˈɡoːpaːl ˈkrɪʂɳə ˈɡoːkʰleː] 9 May 1866 – 19 February 1915) was an Indian political leader and a social reformer during...
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    amritmahotsav.nic.in. V.K. Krishna Menon Remembered. Indian Society of International Law. 2005. p. 4. ISBN 978-81-7827-133-0. Rana, K.S. (2022). Churchill...
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  • Paul Menon was named after famous politician V. K. Krishna Menon by his father who was affiliated with Indian National Congress. Mr. Alex Menon did electronics...
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    additional charge of the office -- although during Nehru's premiership V. K. Krishna Menon was acknowledged as de facto Foreign Minister beyond his official...
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    Justice Vaidyanathapuram Rama Iyer Krishna Iyer (15 November 1914 – 4 December 2014) was an Indian judge who became a pioneer of judicial activism. He...
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    Nataraja Pillai 1967 P. Viswambharan Samyukta Socialist Party 1971 V. K. Krishna Menon[1] Independent 1977 M. N. Govindan Nair Communist Party of India...
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    jurist, parliamentarian, scholar, writer and diplomat. He was, after V. K. Krishna Menon, the second-longest-serving High Commissioner for India in the United...
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    family for many years. He had previously worked as Defence Attaché to V. K. Krishna Menon, while the latter was high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and...
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  • 1952 Vithal Gandhi Indian National Congress Narayan Kajrolkar 1957 V. K. Krishna Menon 1962 1967-1971 Constituency abolished 1977 Mrinal Gore Janata Party...
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    formally set up in 1951 to serve this purpose, under the leadership of V. K. Krishna Menon; founding members included Lady Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru...
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    66. The concept of Sainik Schools originated in the mind of late V. K. Krishna Menon, who was India's first Defence Minister from 1957 to 1962. The objective...
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    Nath Bose, Nandalal Bose, Zakir Husain, Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, V. K. Krishna Menon, and Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, who were honoured in 1954. As of 2023[update]...
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    served as Treasurer of All India Congress Committee from 1994 to 1995. A. K. Antony was born to a Latin Catholic family at Cherthala, near Alleppey in...
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    independence she became secretary to her parents' friend and associate V.K. Krishna Menon, then acting as Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. In...
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    by both his brother, Babu Amar Singh and his commander-in-chief, Hare Krishna Singh. Some argue that the latter was the real reason behind Kunwar Singh's...
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  • cinematographer N Sankaran Nair, Indian director K. Padmanabhan Nair, Indian film director and script writer Raja Krishna Menon, Indian film writer M. G. Sreekumar...
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  • in India with only a loincloth. In India, Levy was a student of V. K. Krishna Menon. He died in London in 1976, and, following his death, his collection...
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    Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna (born 1 May 1932) is an Indian politician who served as Minister of External Affairs of India from 2009 to October 2012....
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