UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1989 · Q1(d) · 20 marks
‘Curzon was an unconscious catalyst who did not understand, let alone desire, what the new century was about to bring forth, but who helped it to be born.’
- Chapter
- Factors leading to the birth of Indian Nationalism
- Topic
- Curzon and the Partition of Bengal
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