UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2008 · Q5(b) · 20 marks
'Most of the European Revolutions of 1848 were nationalist as well as popular insurrection against foreign rule and repressive policy of Metternich.'
- Chapter
- Revolution and Counter-Revolution
- Topic
- Revolutions of 1830 and 1848
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