Write a short note on James Mill's Classification of Indian History?
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He was the first writer to divide Indian history into three parts: Hindu, Muslim and British, a classification which has proved surpassingly influential in the field of Indian historical studies, but which is seen in recent decades as being deeply problematic.
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• Historians have usually divided Indian history into ‘ancient’, ‘medieval’ and ‘modern’.
• This division too has its problems.
→ Because this periodisation is borrowed from the West where the modern period was associated with the growth of all the forces of modernity – science, reason, democracy, liberty and equality.
→ Medieval was a term used to describe a society where these features of modern society did not exist.
• Many historians refers British rule period as ‘colonial’ because in this rule:
→ People did not have equality, freedom or liberty.
→ No economic growth and progress took place.
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