UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2020 · Q7(c) · 10 marks
Discuss the circumstances leading to the French exit from Algeria in 1962.
- Chapter
- Decolonization and Underdevelopment
- Topic
- Decolonisation in Africa and Asia
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