UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1997 · Q1(c) · 20 marks
Curzon's partition of Bengal gave the unwitting initiative to events of magnitude and returned many years later to port with the cargo of freedom.'
- Chapter
- Factors leading to the birth of Indian Nationalism
- Topic
- Curzon and the Partition of Bengal
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