what i learnt Class 8 history ch 1 how when and where
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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 periodization came to be widely accepted.
We try and divide history into different periods to capture the characteristics of time and its central features as they appear to us.
Moving away from British classification, historians have usually divided Indian history into ‘Ancient’, ‘Medieval’ and ‘Modern’.
One important source of Indian history is the official record of the British administration. The Britishers believed that the act of writing was important. Every instruction, plan, policy, decision, agreement and investigation had to be clearly written up.