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In 1817, James Mill, a Scottish Economist and Political Philosopher, published a massive three-volume work. In those books, he divided Indian history in three periods – Hindu, Muslim and British. Now, in the 21st century, we can understand why that was a very narrow way of classifying history. Who were the supporters of Mill’s view?

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In 1817, James Mill, a Scottish economist and political philosopher, published a massive three-volume work, A History of British India. In this he divided Indian history into three periods – Hindu, Muslim and British. This periodisation came to be widely accepted.

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