UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2001 · Q1(c) · 20 marks
‘The British industrial policy in the nineteenth century ruined the Indian handicrafts’.
- Chapter
- Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule
- Topic
- Deindustrialisation and the Decline of Handicrafts
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