UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1980 · Q11 · 60 marks
‘The years 1840 to 1860 confronted the Ching dynasty and the people of China with unprecedented crises due to imperialist designs of western powers’. Discuss critically.
- Chapter
- Imperialism and Colonialism
- Topic
- China and Western Imperialism
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