UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2022 · Q6(a) · 20 marks
Do you agree that the economic effects of the Industrial Revolution were to add enormously to wealth and capital on the one hand and to degrade the masses to permanent poverty as the other? Elucidate.
- Chapter
- Industrialization
- Topic
- Industrial Revolution: Social and Economic Consequences
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