UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1998 · Q1(d) · 20 marks
“Both freedom and partition were the work of Indian middle classes.“
- Chapter
- Politics of Separatism
- Topic
- Why Partition: Freedom and Partition, 1942-47
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