Question

who among the following was in charge of the state department in independent India?​

Answer 1

Answer:    States Department. The States Department, later States Ministry, was a department of the Government of India headed by the Minister of States. Its responsibility was to deal with the princely states and manage their relationship with independent India.

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Answer 2

Sardar Vallabhai Patel

Explanation:

• The Department of States, later the Stats Ministry, was headed by the Minister of States, was the department of the Government of India. He was responsible for dealing with the princely nations and for handling their relations with independent India.
• The department was formed in May 1947 to replace the British Government's Political Department, which had formed the British Crown and British India on the one side and the princely states on the other.
• Vallabhbhai Patel, who was the first home minister of independent India, was made the Head of the Minister of States. VP Menon was appointed the administrative head of the States Department. The states department was established with the sole aim of ensuring the merger of the princely states with India
• It was the Department of State that was largely responsible for ensuring that the princely states acceded to India to achieve their political integration. Their subsequent actions, democratization and administrative integration in India were monitored.