K. P. K. Menon

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K. P. Keshava[1] Menon (1884?–?) was an Indian lawyer and a leading Indian independence activist[2] from Kerala who was a key proponent of the formation of the Indian Independence League (IIL) and a lawyer for the Indian National Army (INA).[3][4]

Menon was educated in

Home Rule movement. He moved to Madras where he started a branch of the New Fabian Society
to "study public questions while simultaneously organising a union for rickshaw pullers".

He then returned to Kerala to meet with

non-cooperation movement, and while there after learning local press would not publish Congress party news, he started his own Malayalam daily newspaper.[1] In 1927, after serving a prison sentence and his wife and daughter were killed,[1] he moved to Malaysia with his remaining family, to work as a lawyer and initiate peace relations and his son, Unni, joined the Royal Air Force
. Menon would frequently listen to the Italian and German broadcasts and was delighted at their defeats.

In the 1930s, he also helped form the Council of Action with

ne'er-do-well. This behavior was considered inappropriate to Bose and the Japanese and interrogated Menon for over two months and a military court sentenced him to six years for "lack of faith in Japan and calling Bose a fascist. Despite the situation, Bose never ordered the arrest or was involved in this matter."[6][7]

As a IIL delegate, he attended various meetings in Tokyo, Bangkok[8] and Malaysia and was acquainted with the Fujiwara clan.[9]

K. P. K., as he came to be called, later became a fierce critic of Japanese imperialist designs with regards to India and the Indian Independence League and was later arrested by the

Mohan Singh Deb's confrontation with the Japanese high command in Singapore, where Menon was working as a lawyer and a recognized leader of the Indian community in Singapore, and his resignation from the INA in December 1942 and the collapse of the first INA.[11] He was also the editor of The Great Trial of Mahatma Gandhi and Mr. Banker (1922)[12] and also the author Chattambi Swamigal: The Great Scholar - Saint of India (1967).[13]

In 2014, Dr. Rajesh Rai, assistant director and senior fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies and assistant professor of South Asian Studies Programme at National University of Singapore, published the book Indians In Singapore, 1819-1945: Diaspora In The Colonial Port-City through Oxford University Press which included Menon.

Works

As editor

  • A Poet in Search of God

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0472083422
    . Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  2. ISBN 978-9814435819
    . Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  3. ISBN 082481889X
    . Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  4. ^ Sareen, Tilak Raj, Select documents on Indian National Army, page 261-269, 1988, Agam Prakashan
  5. ^ Journal of Kerala Studies, Volume 32, page 205, University of Kerala, 2005
  6. ISBN 978-8172244019
    . Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  7. ISBN 978-9971693916
    . Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  8. ISBN 978-1449055691
    . Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  9. ISBN 978-9812308061
    . Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  10. ^ Chettur, Sankara Krishna, Malayan Adventure, page 32, 1948
  11. ISBN 978-0774844406
    . Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  12. ISBN 0802131611
    . Retrieved 11 September 2015. K. P. K. Menon.
  13. ISBN 9788175973053
    . Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  14. ^ Gupta, G. S. Balarama, The Journal of Indian Writing in English, Volume 13, page 96, 1985
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