Why are the terms through which we periodise important ?
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> James Mill- divided history into three periods, Hindu, Muslim and British.
> Historians- Indian history based on time - as ancient, out-of-date and present.
>The British ruled India somewhere in the range of 1858 and 1947 and forced their qualities and traditions with respect to social, monetary, political and social change is named as colonization .
Periodization benefits us to understand the sequence in which various events take place and they are after effects.
It captures the great features of a particular period and benefits us to differentiate it from other events or occurrences.
James Mill, a political philosopher, an economist, dissected Indian history based on the religion into three periods namely, Hindu, Muslim and British periods respectively.
Historians have divided the history of India on the basis of time – termed as ancient, medieval and modern.
This classification method was borrowed from the western style.