UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1992 · Q3 · 60 marks
Discuss the origins and character of major peasant and tribal uprisings in the late 18th and 19th centuries’ were these protest movements backwards-looking?
- Chapter
- Indian Response to British Rule
- Topic
- Peasant Movements and the Indigo Revolt
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