![]() ![]() ![]() He published his influential History of British India in 1817, in which he put forth many of his ideas about British rule being superior and enlightened. ![]() James Mill (1773–1836) was an official of the East India Company, being employed in its service in England from 1819 onwards. This periodization has been attributed to James Mill whose work on Indian history remained the most authoritative colonial text on the subject throughout the nineteenth century and thus exercised enormous influence, and still continues to do so often in pernicious ways. The conquest of Bengal by the East India Company was regarded as marking the beginning of the British period. The Mughal empire began to disintegrate after the death of Aurangzeb (1707). This period was further subdivided into the era of the Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526), which was followed by the Mughal era. The period from the beginning of the Delhi Sultanate, 1206, was broadly referred to as the ‘Muslim Period’ of Indian history, lasting till the first half of the eighteenth century. Thus, the entire period prior to circa AD 1200, was labelled as the ‘Hindu Period’ of Indian history. Colonial historiography since the early nineteenth century divided pre-British Indian history into periods labelled in terms of religious identity: Hindu and Muslim. The conventional periodization of Indian history-ancient, medieval, modern-has until very recently made it possible to perpetuate the periodization scheme in colonial narratives about India’s past. ![]()
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