UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2012 · Q1(c) · 12 marks
“The peasant movements of the second half of the nineteenth century lacked a positive conception which would unite the people in a common struggle on a wide regional and all-India plane and help develop long-term political developments.”
- Chapter
- Indian Response to British Rule
- Topic
- Peasant Movements and the Indigo Revolt
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