tell me about james mill and division of history into periods
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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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JAMES MILL
• He was a Scottish economist and political philosopher.
• In 1817 he published a massive three volume work - A History of British India.
• In the book he divided Indian history into three periods - Hindu, Muslim and British.
DIVISION OF HISTORY
INTO DIFFERENT PERIODS
• We divide history into different periods to capture the characteristics of a time.
• The terms through which we periodise shows the difference between periods.
• They show how we see the significance of the change from one period to the next.