UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2009 · Q1(c) · 20 marks
'Please remember, in granting separate electorates we are sowing the dragons’s teeth and harvest will be bitter.' (Morley)
- Chapter
- Constitutional Developments in the Colonial India between 1858 and 1935
- Topic
- Morley-Minto Reforms and Separate Electorates
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