UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1992 · Q1(c) · 20 marks
‘it was in this almost unrecognizable form that the Ilbert Bill was finally enacted it was primarily a failure of the Viceroy’
- Chapter
- Factors leading to the birth of Indian Nationalism
- Topic
- The Ilbert Bill and the Vernacular Press Act
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