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“The change in the position of the people of Asia and Africa and their relations with Europe was the surest sign of the advent of a new era.” Discuss.

  • UPSC 1997
  • Changing International Political Order

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The statement comes from the British historian Geoffrey Barraclough, whose An Introduction to Contemporary History (1964) predicted that, seen in long perspective, no theme of the century would prove more important than the revolt against the West: the end of European domination over Asia and Africa. For him, decolonisation marked the transition from a European…

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