Question

What are the features which demarcate differences between each period in the new division of Indian history?

Answer 1

We try and divide history into different periods

Explanation:

• We attempt to reflect the characteristics of the moment, as they appear to us. Thus, the words we periodically use – 'that is, the variations between times' – are significant. It's our reflection of the past. They explain how we see the major change from one era to the next.
• James Mill, a Scottish "economist & political scientist" writes a large three-volume book in 1817, "A History of British India." In this sense, Indian history has been split into 3 phases – Hindu, Muslim, and English.
• Historians have often generally distinguished Indian history from the British community into 'old,' 'medieval' and 'modern.' This division still has difficulties. This is a division taken from the West where the advance of progressive forces — science, logic, democracy, fairness and equality — related progressive times. Medieval was used to describe an organisation with these characteristics

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