States Department

Its responsibility was to deal with the princely states and manage their relationship with independent India.

The Political Department had exercised its power on the basis of paramountcy.

Menon was appointed the administrative head of the department.

The States Department had principal responsibility for bringing about the political integration of India by securing the accession of the princely states to India.

Subsequently, it supervised the conduct of their affairs, their democratisation, and their administrative integration into India.