does periodisation help us to understand the dynamics of indian history? give reasons to support your answer
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Periodization has been practiced since ancient times. Well-known examples are the four metallic ages (gold, silver, bronze, and iron) as introduced by Hesiod in the seventh century BC, Daniel's dream of the four kingdoms and its interpretation (Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Macedonian, and Roman monarchies), the Buddhist idea of the threefold periods (the true law, the reflected law, and the end of the law), and Saint Augustine's proposition of six periods (infantia, pueritia, adulescentia, iuventus, gravitas, and senectus, the last named corresponding to the period from the Christ to the end of time). Each had a fundamental influence on the premodern people in its respective civilization. In the East, it was a matter of primary concern to know when the period of the end of the law started. Similarly, in the West people were eager to know the advent of Doomsday.
An examination of these periodizations shows us that (1) at a very fundamental historical level people employ compartmentalized time and not linear time for their historical thinking, and (2) characteristically a people acquire their historical raison d'être using their past to place their present in history.
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