UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2006 · Q2 · 60 marks
Examine the circumstance which led to the third Mysore War. Could Cornwallis have avoided it.60
- Chapter
- British Expansion in India
- Topic
- Mysore and Tipu Sultan
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