UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2023 · Q2(b) · 20 marks
While introducing the Indian Councils Bill of 1861, the British thought that the only Government suitable for India ‘is a despotism controlled from home’. Comment. 20
- Chapter
- Constitutional Developments in the Colonial India between 1858 and 1935
- Topic
- Indian Councils Acts of 1861 and 1892
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