UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2015 · Q5(c) · 10 marks
“The whole episode that is known as the July Revolution (1830) was fought and won not for the establishment of an extreme democracy but to get rid of the aristocratic and clericalist attitude of the restored Bourbons.” Critically examine
- Chapter
- Revolution and Counter-Revolution
- Topic
- Revolutions of 1830 and 1848
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