UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1984 · Q1(d) · 20 marks
‘Curzon’s political obtusely created a breach between government and people which was never wholly closed in the remaining forty-two years of British rule.’
- Chapter
- Factors leading to the birth of Indian Nationalism
- Topic
- Curzon and the Partition of Bengal
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