UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2014 · Q3(b) · 20 marks
“The Anti-Partition Agitation (1909) had an economic character in Bengal unlike the Extremist Agitation in Maharashtra which had a religious character.” Examine.
- Chapter
- Factors leading to the birth of Indian Nationalism
- Topic
- The Swadeshi Movement
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