UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2019 · Q3(b) · 20 marks
Is it justified to say that the Government of India Act of 1935 had all brakes, but no engine?
- Chapter
- Constitutional Developments in the Colonial India between 1858 and 1935
- Topic
- Government of India Act, 1935
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