UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1985 · Q5(a) · 20 marks
‘What mattered in 1789- and what made men revolutionary almost in spite of themselves was the whole revolutionary situation’ ; and in producing that situation the work of the philosophers played no very important role.'
- Chapter
- Origins of Modern Politics
- Topic
- French Revolution: Causes and the Philosophers
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